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and poffetiing at the fame time fuch a level as to prevent any water from neceffarily ftagnating upon it. The field was fo wet, that in many places it was a me e hobbling bog, over which a man could acca pafs during the drieft weather infurnmer. This wasa very unprofita- ble as well as difguftful objeét; and, in the be- ginning of the year 1764, I fet about ferioufly to have it drained. Omi confidering the ciream- {tances of the cafe with attention, I foon perceiv- ed, that as no /urface water Shae come upon it from the higher ground; and as the rain that fell upon the field itfelf was fuffered freely to run off, the water that drowned it mutt rife up from be- fow. But as the weight of the atmofphere a€ted on this field as well as on thofe around, the water could not be made to afcend, as ina pump,, by means of fuction: it muft, then, be forced to take that direétion in confequence of fome powerful preflure from below ground, acting fo ftrongly as

to overcome it’s natural gravity. This preffure,

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it was Se could only be in confequence of

the water flowing from Higher ground, under the Surface, through a firatum of pervious matter, being pent in near the bottom by a ftratum of lay placed above it, and thus forced to rife

to 2 higher level than the low ground, in this