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That planting Aquatics upon Banks in the Fenns, will preserve and strengthen them, so as to render them more able to resist the Force of a Flood.
What will be asserted in this Chapter is not the Result of Surmise, but is what I have been an Eye Witness of. Be it known then unto all those, who think proper to do this Book so much Honour as to give it a Perusal, that the Author is a Fenman:
Why should he be ashamed of his Native Country? A Country, where they have Inverted the following Lines of Horace:
Omne cum Proteus pecus egit altos
Visere Montes:
Piscium & summâ genus hæsit Ulmo,
Nota quæ sedes fuerat columbis,
Et superjecto pavidæ natarunt