National Irrigation, or the Various Methods of Watering Meadows: Affording Means to Increase the Population, Wealth, and Revenue of the Kingdom, by an ... Economy in the Use of Water (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from National Irrigation, or the Various Methods of Watering Meadows: Affording Means to Increase the Population, Wealth, and Revenue of the Kingdom, by an Agricultural, Commercial, and General Economy in the Use of Water

The irrigation of Aberdeenfhire has fur nifhed a new difcovery of no fmall import ance: it has proved to us that heath may be changed into grafs by the mere aét of fimple irrigation, and it leads to a mode of levelling which deferves the national care. It does more than this, it introduces us to the know ledge Of an author, who, in my opinion, has done more for the caufe of humanity than the vic'tories of Egypt; and whofe whole life and works are replete with benevolence and produftive intelligence.

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