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bad state of the new rivers, were compelled to erect a great number of windmills 
for their drainage, and continued to use them till the early part of the nineteenth 
century, when very powerfnl steam-engines driving large scoop wheels were sub- 
stituted for the windmills; and at the present time all the low lands are drained 
artificially by these engines, which amount to about 1000 horse-power. 
In the year 1821 a very important work was carried out for the improvement 
"of the outfall by making a new cut above the town of Lynn, called the Eau Brink 
Cut, which is 3 miles long, and which lowered the water in the upper river in flood 
time 10 feet; this work cost about £100,000. 
The next work of importance was the New Middle Drain, which was completed 
in the year 1848, which was 11 miles lone, and which commenced at Upwell and 
extended to Saint Germans, and was dicharged at the upper end of the Kau Brink 
Cut. This drain, with the outfall sluice, and making the internal rivers of the 
middle level correspond with the new drain, cost upwards of £400,000, which was 
apportioned upon the 110,000 acres of the middle level. 
n the year 1862, the outfall sluice of this drain gave way, and allowed the tide 
to flow up, and ruptured one of the banks, and inundated about 6,000 acres of land : 
since that period the middle level has been drained by sixteen syphons, 3 feet 6 
inches diameter and 20 feet high, which are worked by a ten horse-power engine, 
exhausting the air from the inside by means of an air-pump, and up to the present 
time they have drained this large tract of land. : 
In the year 1852, a further improvement to the outfall was made by the making 
of the Norfolk-estuary cut, 3 miles long, below Lynn, which cost about £250,000, 
and which again lowered the water at low water from 3 to 4 feet. 
Notwithstanding these great improvemonts, and these large sums of money 
which haye been laid out, the greater part of the fen-country is drained by artificial 
means, and will continue so till some further great works are carried out for the 
improvement of the same. 
Sanitary state of Indians in the Settlement of Kanyeageh, Oanada, 1868. 
By James Herwoop, M.A., F.RS. 
A considerable number of Indians are scattered as farmers and farm-labourers in 
the Indian reserve of Tuscarora, near Brantford, in Canada. The New-England 
Company have several missions for the Indians of that reserve, and a new church 
has been recently erected at Kanyeageh, in the north-west portion of the district, 
which on Sunday contains about 300 Indians, the half of whom are males and the 
other half females. The Rey. R. J. Roberts, Church of England missionary at this 
station, has collected the following details respecting the health of the Indians in 
his neighbourhood who are connected with the Church of England. 
Ague is the most common disorder in the Indian reserve, and this malady is at- 
tributable to the numerous swamps in the forest. The Indians of that jodie 
may be regarded as perhaps somewhat more liable to consumption than the 
whites. 
During the half-year from the 1st January to the 30th June, 1868, there were 
seventeen interments of Indians, either in Kanyeageh Ohurchyard or in some other 
burial-grounds within four miles of that station; and the diseases in these cases, 
where known, are thus enumerated :— 
Mates, 
No. Aged. Cause of death. 
AW AasrioriAgcr S YGats sey ese . Not known. 
ANE RE ibe lit eee Depa . Inflammation. 
Sea Pane JY poh RS pateoe Diphtheria. 
Ae nee LO. 55 .sssee++ Inflammation. 
OF a Sawse s » 2 eos ioiccs Consumption. 
Gis erreur i) LISS Png OTD HOC Consumption. 
YO ts ae + aE pene Consumption. 
Sarncatast (aso seseeees Softening of the brain. 
