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furface has more than once been totally 

 overflowed, the hexagon, well, and all, one 

 general flood, and the outward mound 

 rounded of earth, to confine the water, 

 every where overflowed by it, confequent- 

 ly the canal received a much larger por- 

 tion of water than ever Mr. Brindley de- 

 figncd it fhould, and the inconveniencies 

 of an unreftrained tide either happ€ned> 

 or might have done. But the wear was 

 confeflTedly found unequal to its purpofe, 

 which occafioned the making the bafon, 

 marked W, into which the water runs in 

 floods, and over-flows a regular bank made 

 for that purpofe, X, X. But this refource 

 has been fince found infufficient, and not 

 only a fecond one of the fame kind, but 

 alfo a general lowering of the mound of 

 earth around the waters of the Medlock^ 

 inclofing the wear, are now in fpeculatiouo 

 Thefe circumftances prove fufiiciently, that 

 this elaborate and mofl coftly work is 

 nearly ufelefs. 



A very fmall addition of expence in 

 the ere<ftion would have prevented all 

 thefe inconveniencies. Had the central 

 well been twice as large, or of a more fit 

 proportion to the contingent body of wa- 

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