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pressed him to undertake the cure, but he, having so 
much business at that time under hand, was obliged to 
decline my work, along with some others. 
“ I afterwards applied to Mr. Masters, a neighbour 
of Mr. Elkington’s, who had, for some time, followed 
his plan of draining ; I must likewise do justice to Mr. 
Masters, by observing, he conducted and completed 
the business to my entire satisfaction ; and the whole 
was performed by a single drain, as the land falls gra¬ 
dually from the upper side towards a brook opposite. 
“ Mr. Masters employed six, and sometimes seven or 
eight good labourers, and set them to work at the lower 
end next the brook; beginning shallow at first, to se¬ 
cure a proper fall for the water to empty itself into the 
brook, till he came sufficiently into the bog; then cut¬ 
ting a trench four feet wide, and from eight to nine 
feet deep, carried it on from end to end, near three 
parts in four distant from the upper side, and about a 
fourth part distant from the brook ; the earth was thrown 
out chiefly on one side, but occasionally on both. 
“ While this work was carried forwards, the 
borer was employed, being worked by two* three, or 
four men, according to the hardness of the separate 
layers of earth, mixed with stone or gravel, considerably 
below the bog: this is a laborious business, the borer 
beiii<>' forced, bvdint of labour and strength, from seven 
to nine feet below the bottom of the drain; and this 
was performed about every four yards from the be¬ 
ginning to the end. 
!t The borer thus used always, produced some water; 
but in many places the water issued with such force, 
that a staff', when dropped its whole length a yard or 
more into the cavity, would almost immediately bo 
sent to the surface, while this work was going on. 
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