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APPENDIX. 241

*¢ portion of this land is at present in avery rough state,

‘* producing rushes, and other coarse and useless aquatics, “‘ and being withal(from its starved state) very backward “in its spring growth; this tract would be very much im- << proved, and its val e highly increased by cutting a drain “‘ of sufficient de Ake ses to the upland, to intercept the << springs which now spew out from under it upon the mea- “dows to their great injury; this scheme of drainage is “« clearly, easily practicable at a trifling comparative ex- ‘pence: a farther great improvement here would be by ‘“ embanking the rivers, to prevent the great damage often “* occasioned by summer floods, with sluices through such ‘ embankment, to admit the water for irrigation at pleasure; ** such embankment to be assisted by a wear and floodgates, *€ above St. Thomas’s Mill, in the old channel of the river, “¢ by which the flood water might be regulated without the ‘‘ least injury to the mill. The river also at present seems “¢ much Bee and the landholders should unanimously

‘joinint Be eae Orch ansiia tt of sedges and weeds, “as well as sand beds, to give the water a fee passage. It cS are“quested this may be printed in the Agricultural Sur- “* vey of the county, as a means of calling the attention of ‘« the gentlemen interested to this subject