I clear it must have been stopped somewhere and the evidence, together with the extracts I have quoted prove that it was not stopped by sand; there must therefore have been some other cause of stoppage, and it is impossible to conceive any other than the one viz:- states by Wt Bowsher and Mitratto, the two cover stones found by them so placed in the drain as to make it absolutely impossible that they could have come there by any means but human hands. The storm could never have placed them there in that position. The result of this obstruction was to divert nearly the whole of the water to the surface of the ground and to lead it into the "basement floor of the house, which is at a lower level than the surrounding ground, whence it descends or percolates downwards through interstices of the boulders of which the embankment is made into the drain below. This percolation was well defined by the circular eddies or whirlpool marks left on the sand which overlay the basement floor after the waters subsided, and it was quite clear that the percolation had melted and washed downward the earth in the boulder interstices and so caused the cracks in the house.
14. Briefly the main points for the Government are the following:
(1.) that it can be mathematically proven the smaller Belmont drain can carry off over three times the amount of water that was let into it during the storm by all tributary drains.
(ii) that the Belmont drain was not stopped through...
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