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figned it fhould, and the inconveniencies 

 of an unreflrained tide either happened, or 

 might have done. But the wear was con- 

 fessedly found unequal to its purpofe, which 

 occafioned the making the bafon, marked 

 W, into which the water runs in floods, 

 and overflows a regular bank made for that 

 purpofe, X, X. But this refource has been 

 iince found infufficient ; and not only a fe- 

 cond 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 fpeculation. Thefe circum- 

 ftances prove fufiiciently, that this elaborate 

 and moil: coftly work is nearly ufelefs. 



A very fmall addition of expence in the 

 erection would have prevented all thefe in- 

 comeniencies. Had the central well been 

 twice as large, or of a more fit proportion 

 to the contingent body of water, and the 

 correfponding caverns the fame, all the en-? 

 fuing difficulties would have been prevented. 



But when the wear was found unequal 

 to the end propofed, the fhifts made ufe 

 of to remedy it, fuch as the bafon W, 

 and the defigned lowering of the banks, 

 &c. all appear, inadequate to the pur- 

 pofe, and by no means confident with the 

 former plan ; they are little better than 

 letting the water take its natural courfe; 

 which one would apprehend the worfl of all 

 courfes, from the vail expence at which an 

 artificial one was made. I fhould iuppofe, 



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