56 ON THE EECLAMATION 



The accretion at Haverton has been going on since 1837, and 

 was induced by the groins erected by the Navigation Commis- 

 sioners. In May 1860, after a lapse of twenty-three years, the 

 foreshore having been raised to the level of high-water of neap 

 tides, the works of enclosure were commenced, and in February 

 1863 the water was excluded from 150 acres of land at a cost 

 of L.9800, including interest on the outlay, but exclusive of any 

 allowance for the cost of the navigation works. Seventy acres 

 of this land were grazed in 1867, and cropped with oats in 1868, 

 and subsequently with grass, oats, carrots, and potatoes. Eighty 

 acres were sold for manufacturing purposes at L.8626, 14s. The 

 portion under tillage is rented at L.200 per annum. 



The Eston and Tod Point reclamations were commenced in 

 1869, and the water was excluded in 1871 from 585 acres, at a cost 

 of L.I 6,494, special facilities having been offered for making the 

 embankments of slag from the iron furnaces. About one-half of 

 the land is grassed over, and the other half is sand, and the whole 

 enclosure was valued by arbitrators as available for manufactur- 

 ing purposes at L.113,925. 



Neither of these reclamations can be viewed as agricultural 

 improvements, the chief inducement being to obtain sites for 

 public works, and they probably would never have been under- 

 taken but for the facilities afforded by the expensive works of 

 the Navigation Commissioners, and the refuse from the iron- 

 works. 



Such are the results of some important reclamations made 

 under different physical circumstances and financial arrange- 

 ments. To what extent the estuarial shores of the country can 

 be further reclaimed, so as to prove profitable agricultural specu- 



