Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club . extending some twentyor thirty feet into the banks, and were designed to prevent the under-scouring which had occurred at previous attempts. He at the sametime began to fix foot-wharves on each side, some twenty feet in 13 The two printed folio sheets, addressed to the House of Commons, dated 1715 and i7i6(V),relating to the case of W. B. with the Trustees be seen in the British Museum. 14 Boswells Impartial Account, etc., 1717, already quoted. 15 Smiless Lives of the Engineers, vol. i., p. 79. DA(;ENHAM 163 l)readth a
Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club . extending some twentyor thirty feet into the banks, and were designed to prevent the under-scouring which had occurred at previous attempts. He at the sametime began to fix foot-wharves on each side, some twenty feet in 13 The two printed folio sheets, addressed to the House of Commons, dated 1715 and i7i6(V),relating to the case of W. B. with the Trustees be seen in the British Museum. 14 Boswells Impartial Account, etc., 1717, already quoted. 15 Smiless Lives of the Engineers, vol. i., p. 79. DA(;ENHAM 163 l)readth and forty feet distance from the line of piles. These werefilled with chalk, etc., with a strong bed of chalk outside. As thepiles were driven, the filling of the foot-wharves with chalk continuedtill thev met in the middle of the creek, and the spaces on eitherside between the piles and wharves were filled with earth and dam was thus completed to a little over low-water level, and ? ? —?—-^—. v-t**-**iu ^f» ^ •. Haqf vhnm .Aif^ ?. Perrys Plan of Dagenham Breach. A. —The dam whereby the Breach was stopped. H.—The site of Boswells works. C —The site of the landowners works. I) —The site of Pcrr>s sluices. K. The site of Boswells sluices. K.—.\ dam and sluice made for recovery of the meadows shortly after the Breach had occurred. G.—Small sluice for drainage of the landwater. H H.—The dotted line represents the extentof the inundation caused by the Breach. I.—Places where stags horns were dug up. K.^Parallel lines showing the depth atlow water at every sixty yards dis-tance from the shoi-e. then the banks of earth were raised on the dam. The narrow canalwhich he cut to relieve the pressure, was then filled up, and thesluices removed, leaving a large body of inland water, of which agreat deal was drawn off by the ordinary small sluices in subsequentyears. The sheet of deeper water now remaining, and known as The Gulf, covers about forty acres
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