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fon; and about twenty acres of ground were thereby drained, which, before that time, had been in a great meafure ufelefs for every agricul- tural purpofe.

Ten years afterwards, being about to publifh an effay, containing directions for draining all the different kind ds of wet grounds that occafion-

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ally prove detrimental to the armer, I naturally fpecified this variety of wet ground among the

others, and gavea plate explanatory of the caufe

of that phenomenon, as I had done of the others,

in order that every perfon, who chofe it, might be enabled to diftin ng uifh the cafe, and a pply the re-

nedy himfelf, if he fo inclined. The efiay has hae now in the hands of the public above ce ty years, and will fpeak.for itfelf; fo that mo eos not be faid here on that head, further Ron that all thefe faéts could be proved, were it thought neceflary to do fo.

I may add, however, at prefent, when I find that a difpofition is manifefted, on fome occafions, to withhold honour from thofe to whom honour is due, that though I did not think it proper, in a work that profeffedly treated of agricultural con- cerns only, to fpecify all the ufeful corcllaries that might be drawn from the phyfical appear- ance above explained, I may now, without any

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