LTifina allows of their being taken as reliable data for mathematical formula and the official statistics broken by sex are surely likely to be correct than any to be obtained from local newspapers.
8. Colonel Stucley in the same paragraph says even during that period the rain did not descend with uniform intensity, no one would expect that it did. It words however become uniform, or nearly so, by the time it has run off the hills, roads, houses and been collected by the tributary drains and channels into the one in question.
9. Colonel Stucley then points out that the whole area of the Belmont drain was not available as he is prepared to prove that it was to a great extent choked 100 yards. Here we have on the one hand Mr. Bougltrie prepared to prove that the drain was choked with sand and on the other Mr. Ffrodsham and Mr. Watts that it was not. A drain built on such a steep incline could possibly have retained any deposit of sand in it, even allowing that sand has been cast into it. And yet the washing of sand into the drain was guarded against by two large sand pits in the positions shown on the general plan.