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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67081	The second parts of Systema agriculturæ, or, The mystery of husbandry. And Vinetum Britannicum, or, A treatise of cider. Wherein are contained many select and curious observations and novel experiments relating to husbandry and fruit-trees. With the best and most natural rules and methods for the making of cider, and other English-liquors. To which is added, an essay towards the discovery of the original of fountains and springs. / by J.W. ...	Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698.; Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698. Systema agriculturæ the mystery of husbandry discovered.; Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698. Vinetum Brittanicum, or, A treatise of cider.	1689 (1689)	Wing W3597A; Wing W3598_VARIANT; ESTC R39146	80,665	246

be beaten in Mortars as in Hesiod's time instead of being ground in a Mill and all our Wares Goods c. carried from place to place on Horse-back as in some places now it is instead of in Waggons or Carts and all the Water carried from its Fountains to the respective houses in or near London as for the most part it was before the New-River was made and the various Engins erected to convey it from the Thames what a vast number of People and Horses must be then imployed It is true it would maintain a great number of People and beget a very great private Trade to some People in some places But would very much lessen and impoverish the Trade of the Kingdom in general Here it will be objected that heretofore before many of these new Inventions we had a great foreign Trade To which I will only answer That then our Neighbours were not so ingenious nor so much addicted to Trade as now they are for had not we hitherto kept pace with them in Ingenuity and Industry they had long since devoured our Foreign Trade Therefore as they thrive we must emulate them For Divine Providence hath seated us on an Island yielding all sorts of Necessaries Mineral Animal and Vegetable for the promoting and carrying on of Trade Having many secure Ports for the Encouragement of Trade And its temperature of Air and situation on the Globe such that it exceeds all other places whatsoever yet discovered That if its Husbandry be neglected and its Trade decayed which necessarily follows it must very much reflect on the Genius of its Inhabitants which to do there hath been hitherto no cause No Nation under the Sun producing so Ingenious Active Valiant and Wise a People for the Management of their Trades and Occupations at Home and spreading their Colonies and Factories and multiplying their Effects abroad One of the great Advantages to Husbandry and Trade of England is that there is not a Vill in it but is situate within 20 Miles of the Sea or some River Navigable or that may be by Art and Industry so made whereby carriage of heavy Commodities useful in Foreign or Domestic Trade may be cheap As Timber Stone Coal Corn c. which not only easeth the labour of many Hands sparing them for other uses but the better furnisheth all Markets with such Commodities they want of their Neighbours Therefore the cutting and making of Rivers Navigable is very much to be encouraged as of Public Use and a National Advantage and so hath it been esteemed in Foreign Countries The Navigation on cut Rivers advancing the Trade of many rich Cities and Towns in the Spanish Netherlands and united Provinces usually called The Low Countries And great have been the Attempts of Emperors and Princes abroad in cutting Channels uniting of Rivers c. As in cutting a passage between the Mediterranean and the Red-Sea The making Navigable the Istmus of Corinth thereby to make safe and speedy passages from one Sea to another Attempts have been likewise made to unite great Rivers as the Loire and Seine at Briare in France the Soane and the Mosella on the Confines of Burgundy and the Rivers Redintz and Altmul near Regensburg in Germany began by Charles the Great which had it been perfected would have opened a Navigable Passage from the Rhine to the Danube But the greatest Work that hath been attempted and performed is the cutting the Royal Canal of Languedoc making a Navigable passage from the Port of Cette on the Mediterranean-Sea into the Garronne which emptieth it self into the Western Ocean which is esteem'd not only the greatest and most stupendious Work in France but of the whole World. It was first proposed by Cardinal de Richelieu began in the year 1668. and carried on with great Skill Cost and Industry and finished Anno 1686. The length of the Canal is said to be 50 or 60 French Leagues in length and in breadth 12 or 15 fathom that Vessels of good Burthen may pass easily its depth about 8 or 9 Feet This Canal hath its supply of Waters from several Rivers by other Canals made to convey them into this Channel of Communication between the two Seas Besides which there are great Treasures of Water coming of other Streams of Rain and of Snow reserved to supply any defect of Waters that may in times of Drought happen in the Royal Canal or Channel of Communication This Canal is also carried by a Stone-Bridge over another Navigable River and in another place it passes through a Hill in an arched passage of 26 fathom in length In this Canal are said to be 23 Locks all of Stone-Work for the raising of the Vessels I suppose as they pass from the Mediterranean towards the Garronne for it is to be supposed that the Sea at Cette or Montpelier is equally or very near level with the Sea below Burdeaux at the Mouth of the Garronne And it is evident that the Garronne from Tholouse runneth at least five times farther than is the distance between it and the Mediterranean-Sea and the Garronne is upon a continual descent and because there is a sufficient supply of Waters Vessels may pass without help of Locks But the Royal Canal having only Water to preserve it full must be made level and its descents towards the Mediterranean-Sea must be by Artificial Locks and in number as is their depth and the declination of the Country By this Canal may be transported all Commodities from the Mediterranean-Sea to Burdeaux and all that Coast of France and so by consequence to the Northern parts of Europe without the hazard of passing the Streights of Gibraltar or fear of Turkish Pirats besides the easie carriage of Wines Corn Oil c. I only mention this particular Work to shew that great things may be accomplished where Interest Honour or Glory excite great Men to aid and assist in such Enterprizes We have here in this Kingdom some Instances of extraordinary Actions of this Nature which have been formerly done to the Honour of the Undertakers and very much to the Advantage of the places where they have been done and consequently to the Nation in general As the makng the River of Thames Navigable from Abington to Oxford and then farther towards Lechlade hath proved of very great Advantage to that City and places adjacent The like the making the River from Gilford in Surrey into the Thames Navigable hath been very advantagious to that Town and its Neighbourhood and both of them have added much to the Trade of that Famous City of London There was once a Navigable Canal cut from the River Trent near Torksey in Lincolnshire to the City of Lincoln where it joyned to the River that flows from thence to Boston and was supplied with Water from that River It was said to be done by Bishop Attwater or Henry 1st as some will have it However it was an ancient Work as its Name imports being called Fossedike

and is visible to this day although wholly useless perhaps suffered to decay by reason the Advantages arising thereby might be but small Trent and Boston being neither far from Lincoln or perhaps when the Trade of that City decayed which hath been heretofore very great as hath been said this Canal was neglected But the greatest Work of this Nature that hath been done in this Age in this Kingdom was the cutting that famous Aquaduct from Ware to Islington whence by Pipes its Water is conveyed to the greatest part of London and its Suburbs A Work not only eternizing the Fame of the Undertaker but of infinite advantage to his Successors and that great City It is not impossible so to enlarge it as to make it Navigable for Wherryes and slender Barges for the passage of Men and Women and the easie carriage of all manner of Commodities to the Markets of that great Metropolis and the return of Coals and other Goods back again For there is Water enough in the River Lea at Ware to maintain a full Channel all the year to carry Vessels of good Burden and to maintain currents of Water in most of the principal Streets of the Famous City of London which would not only keep them clean and wholesome but be ready on all occasions if sudden Fires should happen There are many other Rivers that either flow into the Thames or other already made Navigable Rivers or into the Sea that may be made Navigable to the very great advantage of the adjacent Towns and Countries and of the general Trade of the Kingdom For it is most certain where there is Water enough to make a full Channel and supply the constant Expence and Leakage of the Locks the making of such River Navigable will be feazible notwithstanding the descent or fall of the River be quick For where the descent is quick as from Salisbury to Christ-Church and from Winchester to Southampton although there be plenty of Water yet it is usually broad and shallow and therefore not naturally Navigable nor to be made so without many Locks and artificial Canals for the Current will otherwise be so strong that laden Vessels are not easily haled against it Such Rivers require too much cost for a private Purse to undertake to advantage But if there be Water enough as in many Rivers in England there is and the descent not too quick Locks will raise Vessels into the new-cut Canals through which although heavy laden they will pass with ease It is observed that the Water descends from Brussels to Antwerp above 200 Foot yet is that River Navigable by the help of Locks And that at Fontain four or five miles from Brussels one River is by Art carried over another for Navigation-sake It 's the easie carriage of Goods from one place to another that makes so many and rich Cities and Towns and Trade flourish in those Countries and without doubt would do the same here It is not the setting down the Expence of making a River Navigable and then setting down the Income of the Toll and so casting up Whether it will bring in as much per annum as the Interest of the Mony to be expended amounts to that will make Rivers Navigable If those Expences had been rightly cast up the River from Ware to Islington and that from Guildford to the Thames had not been yet begun Although there be twenty times the Interest of such Expences advantage to some or other besides the Public Therefore such great Undertakings where so many are concerned in the Profits ought to be at the Expence of many As the Reparations of some High Ways Bridges Havens c. have been at the Charges of more than the adjacent Inhabitants because the Profits extend farther It hath been a long time under Consideration and several have pretended to be Undertakers of it viz. The Uniting of the River of Thames with that of Avon that flows to Bristol making a Navigable Communication between the Cities of London and Bristol The possibility of accomplishing this Enterprize hath been much argued and I will not here contend against it supposing the same may be done so that there be Water enough to supply such a Navigable Canal that must be made between the Heads of two small Streams that lead to each River which will be very difficult to be had where there is no other Stream or River near to be brought into it to supply it For it is not a little Water that must maintain such a Navigable Channel in the Summer-time and the Leakage of the Locks at each end which must be for raising up and letting down of Vessels that ought daily to pass through this Channel and in case there should be a constant supply of Water yet would the Expence of making so many Locks as would necessarily be required on those small Streams be so great that it would be insupportable or at best very unprofitable to private Purses For a small Stream hath a much quicker descent than a large and heavy River for this worketh it self into a level there being not so great a descent from Kingston upon Thames to the shore at Putney as is usually in a miles length of a small River besides small Waters are uncapable of Navigation unless pent up to a level But without doubt if this Work were done in case it be possible to be done it would be of very great use and advantage to all that Trade between those two Cities and an enriching of several Countries adjoyning to the said Channel as well in their Husbandry as Trade The making of Rivers Navigable being at the first a Work of great Expence is too much for private Undertakers Therefore if there were a Fund of 20 or 30000 l. per annum raised out of some foreign Commodity or on Coals or the like to be applied for that purpose In a few years time many Rivers in England might be made Navigable whereby Coals and other Marine Commodities might be imported to and Timber Wood Stone Corn c. be exported from the more Inland-parts and a small Imposition on each Barge or Vessel would be sufficient to maintain the Locks and Canals in repair which would prove a very great Incouragement to Husbandry and Trade As appeareth in all places situated near a Navigable River where Farms yield good Rents and yet plenty of all things abounds That all places may partake of the like Felicity is the desire of all true Englishmen The Analysis or Summary of this Second Part of the Mystery of HUSBANDRY THe Preface or Introduction shewing the great advantages that Husbandry bringeth to Trade and the dependencies the later hath on the former Chap. 1. Of Husbandry and Improvements in general plainly discovering that there is a spontaneous Generation and growth of Vegetables and Animals f. 1 That there are spontaneous Productions of Plants 2 Some assert that all Plants are produced of Seeds 4 That there are spontaneous Productions of