. Ichnographia rustica; or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation. Containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat into rural and extensive gardens, parks, paddocks, &c., and a general system of agriculture; illus. from the author's drawings. out fifteen Foot « Diameter, and the Floats at eighteen Inches ^ Diftance, fo as to throw out the Water eleven or twelve Foot above the Level of ? your Stream. The Wheel will go round ** four times in a Minute, and carry up a- * bout one hundred and twenty Hoglheads of * Water in an Hour, only by penning or ftop- • ping a
. Ichnographia rustica; or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation. Containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat into rural and extensive gardens, parks, paddocks, &c., and a general system of agriculture; illus. from the author's drawings. out fifteen Foot « Diameter, and the Floats at eighteen Inches ^ Diftance, fo as to throw out the Water eleven or twelve Foot above the Level of ? your Stream. The Wheel will go round ** four times in a Minute, and carry up a- * bout one hundred and twenty Hoglheads of * Water in an Hour, only by penning or ftop- • ping an ordinary Current. This Engine will very well water thirty or forty Acres ** of Land 5 it works conftantly, and will laft «* many Years without Repairs, fo as it be ** not permitted to ftand ftill •, for then one Side would grow dry and lighter than the ^ other 5 and the flower the Motion is, the •* better the Water is delivered.** The Drain- S ing, 24 i of the Management and ing, and Overflowing of Lands, make bothvery confiderable Improvements 5 the formerdone on a fenny, marfhy, fowr, Pafture, topreferve it from Rufhes, and render it heal-thy^ and the latter is ufually praftisd on Mea-dows, and indeed generally affords the greateftAdvantage to the
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