168 



Drainage hj Steam Power. 



Dip. 



Water Dis -harged per 

 Minute. 



ft in 



Cubic feet. 



tons. 



1 o" 



432 



12 



1 6 



€45 



18 



2 0 



829 



23 



2 6 



10^5 



28 



3 0 



1194 



33 



3 6 



135.5 



37i 



4 0 



1530 



42 



Capital expended in the Work. 

 Cutting catchwater drains to convey water from the higher lands to 

 the sluice, and building culverts and bridges in connexion with 

 the same .......... 



Cutting new watercourses to convey the drainage-water to the 

 engine, deepening old watercourses, forming embankments, &c. 

 &c. ; the expense of the iron pipes at Sandyway included . 

 Engine-house and chimney (most of the materials — consisting of stone 

 for the foundations of walls, chimney, engine and wheel, and 

 bricks above, with slates for the roof — had to be carted 6 miles). 

 The building is about 12 yards by 11 ; the chimney 6 feet 7 in. 



square at the base, and 20 yards high 



Engine, boiler and wheel (as per contract) ..... 

 Extras. — Apparatus for disengaging scoop-wheel . 



Water-cistern over boiler-house, used for refilling the 

 boiler ........ 



£. s. cL 



356 0 9 



1263 18 9 



735 

 1025 

 9 



35 5 8 



£3425 8 10 



The above items include the cost of a provision made in the 

 machinery for working a saw mill, when the engine is not employed 

 in driving the wheel, but this is not made available at present. 



Now, that fall has been obtained, a further outlay has been 

 called for in the under-drainage of portions of the land. This 

 has been effected with pipe tiles, put in from 3 to 4t feet deep^ 

 and about 12 yards apart. The soil is, in some places, of a loose 

 sandy kind, and in others peaty. Not unfrequently sand and 

 peat are found together, and by deep ploughing or digging are 

 judiciously intermixed. The subsoil consists of peat, sand, and 

 in some places marl. Considerable quantities of the latter have 

 been thrown out of some of the main watercourses leading to the 

 engine, and is now being applied to the peaty and sandy land 

 with great advantage. Another improvement has been effected, 

 in eradicating old fences and filling up useless ditches, and in 

 planting new white thorn hedges. The cost of draining and 

 of these improvements has been estimated at 1000/. 



A further outlay was required at the 3fere House Farm, in the 

 erection of farmx-buildings, a thrashing machine, and the repair 

 of occupation roads. Tliis has .ilso been estimated at 1000/. 

 About thirty or forty years ago there was a good pile of farm- 

 buildings at this farm, but in consequence of the lost condition of 

 the land, induced by want of drainage, the farm became deserted,, 



