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provement, and obstructing the general good.

The best method of proceeding, perhaps, would be, to get off the water, in the spring, fill up the sewers, early in summer; and, in the ensuing winter and spring, raise mounds, by degrees(so as to give the foun- dation time to settle firmly) on the sites of the water fences. In this case, filling up the sewers with the hillocks and protuberances of the areas of the adjoining Marshes, might be found eligible; or, where the areas are already adjusted, with the subsoil of the land, immediately on either side; throwing back the surface mold, and giving a length- ened slope towards the fence. For facing and coping the mounds, thick turves, raised in the areas of the Marshes, wherever sur- face drains were wanted, should be used: thus effecting the double purpose of drain- ing the land; and of raising the fences, without lowering, unnecessarily, the ground on either side of them.*

The. expence, of raising these fences

* See Miptanp Countries, MIN: 49, on this point of management.