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Immediately after the event. This drain, which is shown in red on the general plan, was made partly to allay any feelings of anxiety Mr. Browning might have lest the thing should recur again, and to carry off the heavy fall during the excavations and examination of the old drain and house foundation, but principally because this Department of recent years, acting on broad principle, has endeavoured whenever the opportunity arose to substitute all drains under houses by drains under the public streets.
12. In paragraph 5, Colonel Start pronounces the drain poor and of faulty "construction" and not at all adapted to bear any sudden and unforeseen pressure, and that it seems probable that it had been damaged more or less before the date of the accident to "Belmont." The drain is similar to a number in the Colony built about the same time. It would last many years if uninjured by external causes. A glance at the annexed tracing representing the state of the drain when it was exposed to the light clearly shows that Colonel Start is right in his conjecture, and that the cover stones were injured by the careless manner in which...