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"house was" but long after the drain under my house was completed, they turned the waters of a large drain unto it, and "thereby threw upon it duties which it was never intended to and could not adequately fulfil". This, I say, was the proximate and real cause of the accident and upon this point the statement of the Surveyor throws some light.
2. To the above I replied in my minute of 9th September 1879, that the drain under my house was capable of discharging 2277 cubic feet of water per minute, whereas the entire volume of storm waters, including those of the larger drain which he complains had been turned into it, came after all to an average of 705 cubic feet per minute, during the greatest intensity of the storm, or less than one third.
3. My statement and calculations were then referred to Colonel Stuart, C.E., who was no longer a member of the Executive Council, for an opinion, and on the 4th January, 1880, Colonel Stuart sent in his report. The reference to Colonel Stuart for an opinion was in every respect the same as a reference to Mr. Boughbrie himself. The close friendship existing between these two gentlemen, and Colonel Stuart's...