AND PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND. 



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jurious to navigation, and that of the Dee Company which I have 

 iescribed is no exception. But it is of greater importance, 



jrhaps, to state that navigation improvements, as will be 

 shown hereafter, may, if judiciously carried out, be made to 

 )romote the acquisition and protection of land as well as 

 :he interests of navigation, as for example, at the Bibble and 

 the Lune in Lancashire, and thus to serve at once the two- 

 fold interests of navigation and agriculture. I know from 

 experience, that had proprietors of land and conservators of 



ivigations, in many tidal estuaries, worked harmoniously to- 

 gether in jointly carrying out such improvements as would have 



mefited both interests, much unnecessary litigation might have 

 prevented, and a result more satisfactory to both parties 

 might have been attained. Such a land-making scheme as 

 that of the Dee can be successfully taken up only by a powerful 



>mpany. But many useful reclamations have been effected 



ithout recourse to such extreme measures, advantage being 

 :en of a slow and almost unseen process, whereby, under 

 favourable physical circumstances, aided sometimes by the help 

 of very slight appliances to hasten and secure the deposit, the 

 surface of the banks is gradually raised by the alluvial matter 

 left by each receding tide, and it is often in carrying out these 

 isolated and gradual reclamation works, that the interests of 

 >roprietors and conservators come into collision, and that a 



)int plan of works would be very desirable. 

 The gradual process of reclamation to which I have alluded 

 often resorted to by proprietors, is termed " warping." 

 The tide is permitted to flow freely over the surface, and what- 

 ever matter is deposited at slack tide contributes to the accre- 



