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As Lynn Harbour applies to this, ſo may it be reaſonably inferred, that the harbour muſt be improved.
Has been an improved channel below 18 1 . L 1.. No ſand banks hace been raiſed acroſs the No ſand banks will be raiſed acroſs the 441 1 4
mouth of the new cut.
bay below the new cut. bay below the new cut. An improved navigation through the new cut, and up to the town of Wiſbech.
An improved navigation through the new cut and up to Kau Brink will take place.
Fhere will be a foundation for a perfect drainage, an advantage of which all lands
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The foundation for a perfed drainage of che fen lands, which has ſince taken place.) whoſe outfalls communicate with the Ouze equally partake. That an increaſed trade will ariſe by a An increaſed trade, the increaſed tonnage return of that part which has been in a great being fourfold. e loſt, viz. from Lynn to Peterborough — and Northampton.
The whole reſolves itſelf into this. Is it pofſibie, in the nature of things, that the Wiſbech cut, which extends only one mile and a quarter nearer to deep water, can have been more efficacious in ſcowering the fands below, and in bringing about the other improvements abovèe ſtated, than the new cut at Lynn will be, which will extend almoſt ſix miles nearer to deep water than the River now does at Eau Brink, above which it is confined to a narrow ſpace.
The harbour of Lynn cannot pofibly be injured by a decreaſe in the indraught, for no ſuch decreaſe will happen, but juſt the contrary, ſince the tides will How up the new cut in a deep channel, the only poſfible means of accquiring additional force; for granting the argument of the oppoſition to be juſt, and that the force of the indraught depends on the width merely, we have nothing to do but to make the river as wide again as it js; and then the indrauglit being Widened, the reflowing power will be increaſed, which is abſurd to fuppoſe.
Second— Denver Sluice.— That Denver Sluice is the ſole cauſe of the decay of the outfall; and if removed, both drainage and navigation would be compleat.
Anſaer.— One of the moſt intelligent enginsers and honeſteſt men that ever lived, the late Mr. Smeaton, who was employed Bv THE TOWN OF LYNN to make obſervations on the river and harbour, was clearly and decidedly of opinion, that Denver Sluice was not the cauſe of the decay of the outfall, which, he ſaid, was to be looked for from other events. What was really the cauſe is ſhewn in the anſwer to the firſt part of the firſt objection; and it is impoſſible to refute the fact on which the argument in that anſwer is founded: for the ſea has retreated; and immenſe tracts of ſalt marſh have been embanked on the adjacent ſhore.— Will the objectors ſay, that the weakening of the upland ſtreams has cauſed the ſea to retire? This can never be the caſe; for the outfall at Wiſbech has been improved; and ſince that improvement has taken place, the accretion of ſalt marſh has been more rapid than uſual; witneſs the Act of Parliament, paſſed in the laſt ſeſſion, for the embankment of 5,000 acres on that ſhore. A ſtill more deciſive anſwer to this objection is, that the outfalls of the Nene and of the Welland, diſcharging themſelves into the ſame bay, have likewiſe been loſt; and that Denver Sluice has certainly no effect upon any of them, it being at an immenſe diſtance and acroſs a river, with which none of them have any communication.
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