Document 66 p15
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| Deponent was informed, and verily believes, were appointed by the Bench | ||||
| of Magistrates to view the same; (one of which to the best of this | ||||
| Deponent’s Remembrance, and Belief was the Defendant B. Wastell | ||||
| great | ||||
| Esqr) and found every thing done to his, the Deponent’s, ⁁ Satisfaction, as | ||||
| well as to that of the Magistrates attending; And as such he this | ||||
| Deponent gave a Certificate to the Complainant, that the Bridge was | ||||
| completed according to the Complainant’s Agreement. And this | ||||
| Deponent further answering says, that this Bridge as he has been | ||||
| informed and verily believes stood safe, and unhurt, and without | ||||
| the least Appearance of Injury, notwithstanding that several great | ||||
| Floods happened during the intermediate Time: But that upon the | ||||
| 11th day of March 1782 a more sudden and violent Flood happened, | ||||
| than had happened since the great Inundation of 1771, and which | ||||
| Flood of 1782 being at the height in the Middle of the day, the | ||||
| Circumstances attending it were more capable of being observed, than | ||||
| that which in the Night destroyed the Bridge in 1771: In particular | ||||
| this Deponent having been informed by the said Mr J Donkin, who | ||||
| was present, that he particularly observed the height of the Water acting | ||||
| against the Bridge on the |
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| and that it rose on that Side to the top of the Caps of the salient Points | ||||
| East | ||||
| of the Piers; but that on the downstream or |
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| the Water scarcely arose so high as the Bottoms of the Imposts: And | ||||
| therefore from the difference of perpendicular height of these two fixed | ||||
| Marks, this Deponent calculates that the Velocity of the Current Water | ||||
| 15 must | ||||
Note: Mr Smeaton's Replies to Interrogatories p15
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