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ed; but, at C i, it is found to come out with sufficient fall forfloating it. This piece is divided into two divisions, and is sup-plied with two separate feeders, C i, and C 2 ; and two separatemain drains, each of which are marked with a D. This divi-sion makes it handier, as the mill may spare water for half themeadow, while it could not for the whole. Thus, in this mea-dow, the process of floating may be alternate, throughout all thefloating season.
A simple hatch, like those in Plate VIII., is placed in themouth of each of the feeders, for excluding or admitting the wa-ter at pleasure.
The places in this, and all the plates, marked s, are stops.
As this meadow lies low, and might have been spritty withthe sink of the mill-lead, the beds or ridges are made about 10yards wide, with the small drains between them a little deep-er and wider than in Plates II. and III.; particularly the twodrains, marked with a d, betwixt the first bed and the mill-lead,which ought to be from two to three feet deep, to keep the sinkof the lead from the floated ground, and also to carry off theexcess of water that may be pushed over the lead-banks in thetime of a flood.
N. B. This and the next plate are designed to answer thethird class of land mentioned in the Chapter.
There are many opportunities for meadows of this descriptionin the North of Scotland .
Plate V.
Plate V. represents another floated meadow, which is suppos-ed to be floated from a mill-lead, like- Plate IV.
This mill-lead, marked B, which receives its water from theriver by means of a stone-wear at A, is supposed to carry morewater than the mill ordinarily requires, (or may be made to doso, by making its intake, or wear A, a little closer); but at thesame time, it is found that it can spare but half as much wa-ter as the piece to be floated would require. It is also seen, thatthe one half of the ground is high, and the other low, the low-est half of it lying farthest from the mill-lead. This shows thepropriety of two separate feeders, as delineated on the plate.
F i, the feeder for supplying the low part of the meadowwith water, which can be done when the water is low in themill-lead. F 2, the feeder for supplying the high part of themeadow, which requires the water to be a little higher in thelead, to do it properly, than F i. It is supposed that, in floods,when there is an excess of water, both the divisions may be donetogether; at other times, they may be done alternately. Theadvantages of laying out a meadow of the above shape in this\vay, are these:—1st, As there is a considerable fall in theground from the mouth of F i, to where it begins to operate at