XIV INTRODUCTION

of that gentleman, nor to find fault with the re- muneration you have obtained for him, but mere- ly to fet you righ vt in regard to a matter of fact concerning me,. which might eafily efcape your ssid

I prefume; oe you thought it evident, from the {tatement made Mr. Elkington, that the mode of draining grou a which has been fo fuccefs- fully practifed of late by that gentleman, was an invention peculiarly his own. That this is not the cafe, admits of evidence, which I hope you will allow to be fatistattory. It is now twenty years fince I publifhed a book, called Efays re- lating to agriculture and rural affairs. If you will take the trouble of turning to the fecond ef-

fay in that work, which is, on draining bogs and

Swampy ground, you will there find the method of

draining, by means of tapping, which has been adopted by Mr. Elkington, fully explained, and the principles upon which it m lay be prattifed clearly developed, by the aid of illuftrative figures, difcriminating plainly the cafes in. which that mode of prattice would Oe improper.

I do not underftand that Mr. Elkington prac- tifed this method of a ning before the publica- tion of that work,(anno 1775,) neither do I mean

to affert that he adopted the pra€tice from the di-

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