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durinc his leisure at Woburn in June 1798, 
o 
taken an unprejudiced view of Prestly Bog, 
in that neighbourhood, the place where the 
great experiment of Elkington’s bog-drain- 
ing was to have been made, under the in- 
spodfion of himself and other members of 
the Board, of which the public has heard so 
much in the original proceedings, already 
noticed in this publication, but of the result 
of which it remains totally uninformed — 
we say, had Sir Joseph Banks taken this 
view in the presence of Mr. Elkington, his 
penetration would have led him to discover 
the most probable cause of Mr. Elkington's 
miscarriage, and he would have, at least, 
doubted whether it proceeded from the^ 
choaking properties of the roots of the equi- 
setum palustris, or from any other cause. 
We are well informed, that after Mr. El- 
kington had staked out his drains, (as he 
could not personally attend to the execution 
of the cutting of them) the dirediion of the 
labour was lelt to be executed, and was imclcr- 
taken, by Mr. F y, the Duke of Bedfoi d's 
