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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clear it must have been stopper somewhere and the evidence, together with the extracts I have quotes prove that it was not stopped by sand; there must therefore have been some other
of stoppage, and it is impossible
other than the one
cause
to conceive
viz:-
any
states by Wt Bowsher and Mitratto,
the two cover stones foun's by. them so places in the drain as to make it absolutely impossible they by that position by Certainly any means but human hands.
could have come
the storm could never have placed them there in that position. The result of this obstruction was to divert
nearly the whole
the water.
of the
A
to
the surface of the ground and to lead
it into the "basement
the house
floor of which is at a lower level than the surrounding ground, whence it descencer or percolates downwards
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through interstices of the bouliers of which the embankment, is mail into the drain below. This
percolation
the
was well defined by the circular Eddies. whirlport marks left Loft sand which overlay the basement floo after the waters subsides, and it was quite clear that the perculation had
meltes and washer downward the earth in the boulier interstices and
so causes the cracks in the house.
14.
Briefly
regares the case are the following:
the main
points
مان
for the Government
(1.) that it can be mathematically
prover the smaller Belmont
drain
carr
carry off
over three
times the amount of wate. that
was les into it du
storm
by
during
the
all tributary drains.
(ii) that the Belmont drain was
through
not
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