XVi INTRODUCTION.

J with not to throw.out any infinuation to the o prejudice of Mr. Elkington, who, by.a proper oe degree of management on his part, has great” merit in having turned the attention of the na- os tion towards a mode of draining, which, if the| bi principles upon which it is grounded are fully el underftood, and properly applied, will be found| ne to be equally cheap and efficacious; as I myfelf,| a) from an experience of it for more than thirty| years, can fafely affert. But it is a miftake, to| ae

» think it can be univerfally applied. There are 4a i many cafes in which it can be of no ufe, and cf therefore it were vain to attempt-iks;as[have am fully demonftrated in the treatife referred to. wit

Whether Mr. Elkington did aétually difcover Mr this mode of draining of himfelf, or adopted it brou from the very plain direétions given in that trea- But tife, is of little confequence to the public. In fo either cafe, he has alike the merit of having in-| ce troduced it into practice in the fouthern part of K( this ifland: for the fimple faét that he has been fi Suppofed to be the firft inventor of it, is the clear-| i eft proof that this part of my treatife, by how it

many foever tt may have been read, has been al- ¥ eRe lowed to remain, in a great meafure, a dead let.| ter, even till the prefent hour.|