THE SILTING UP OF THE DEE: ITS CAUSE. 61 
Mr. Suone replied, and, in answer to the Chairman, described 
the sweeping away of a quantity of gravel, which he deposited in 
the river, by the bore. If large pebbles could be carried 150 yards 
-up the stream, surely it showed the power of the bore to bring 
with it sand from below. As to the remark about his argument 
leading one to expect a large deposit of silt just below the 
Causeway, he pointed out that the power of the ‘‘freshes”’ was 
the greatest in that comparitively narrow part of the river, and 
wéakened as the river became wider lower down. Further than 
that, he learned that this year there had happened what was 
never known before, namely, that Kettle’s Hole, just below the 
causeway, was filled up with sand, and remained so till a fresh 
came. There had also been such a deposit of silt near the 
Grosvenor Bridge that the water from the Dee Mills could not 
get away. 
