At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the Paving Committee reported in favour of a scheme for draining the northern part of the city, at the total cost of 7,893 pounds, according to plans prepared by Mr. E.
The Norwich Town Council accepted contracts amounting to over 9,000 pounds for draining the northern portion of the city.
It is a common error, that we cannot fill our provinces or increase the number of them, without draining this nation of its people.
Canada easily peopled, withoutdraining Great Britain of any of its inhabitants.
The objection I have often heard, that if we had Canada we could not people it, without draining Britain of its inhabitants, is founded on ignorance of the nature of population in new countries.
I perceive that in time we must set about drainingso much of the marsh outside as belongs to me.
The story was interrupted at the point where we held it fortunate detectives were not employed to go in pursuit of Fopp, as they both were of one kith and kin, only that they had different processes for draining purses.
The Romans seem to have done something toward the draining and embanking of this dismal swamp.
If the trees are bored with care, with holes not too close together, the tree will stand this draining from year to year, and seem not to be injured by the loss of sap.
Fortunes have been made by the draining of these pine trees of their rich, pitchy sap.
It is said that they assist in draining the land, and thus prevent the foot-rot in sheep.
The district council are required to cause to be made such sewers as may be necessary for effectually draining their district.
This coal-field occupies practically the whole of Glamorgan and part of Monmouth, and its surface slopes from the Black Mountain and Brecon Beacons to the sea as a gently inclined plateau, scored by deep valleys draining south.
For instance, in draining the mines, the shafts are filled with men that bail out the water with small buckets made of palm leaf, and holding about two gallons.
Nevertheless, from the first, so far as draining is concerned, operations have been conducted on sound engineering principles.
It turned out in the course of the day, that a field of clay near Toftfield went by this name, and that the draining of it was one of the chief operations then in hand.
It is convenient to have draining boards on both sides of the sink, but by no means always possible.
The point is to have some place other than the draining boards where food can be prepared.
There is little difference, save in degree, between draining the life-blood of a race and robbing it of the fruits of its labor.
In that moment, hatred of the fiends posing as gods anddraining the vitality of deluded worshippers, crystallized and drove me to action.
Since the dawn of our history, until the present moment, the Heads have maintained their lives by draining blood from the veins of thousands of Apexans yearly!
He then entered into details respecting the clearing of the land, the draining of the pools, etc.
It must be very nourishing,' I replied, after heroically draining the cup of tribulation.
There is no reason to doubt that these differences are due to the draining of the lake.
The reclamation of bogs and swamps by draining off the surface-water is doubtless much more ancient than the draining of lakes.
The quantity of sand annually washed into the Red Sea by the larger torrents of the Lesser Peninsula, is probably at least equal to that contributed to the ocean by any streams draining basins of no greater extent.
Hence the draining of lakes, on a considerable scale, must modify both the humidity and the temperature of the atmosphere of the neighboring regions, and the permanent supply of ground-water for the lands lying below them.
Footnote: The draining of Lake Celano was undertaken by a company, but Prince Alessandro Torlonia of Rome bought up the interest of all the shareholders and has executed the entire work at his own private expense.
I have, however, no doubt of its being salt, from the nature of the country, and the fact of finding the water very salt in one of the creeks draining into it from the hills.
This was the most important discovery made in connection with the lake system, Cooper's Creek being one of the far-reaching affluents, its tributaries draining the inland slopes of the main dividing range.
The open and healthy condition of soil produced by draining prevents the tillering from being stopped, and thus keeps up a full growth of grass until the nutriment of the soil is exhausted.
The advantages of under-draining are many and important.
How does under-draining improve the mechanical texture of the soil?
Draining enables us to deepen the surface-soil, because the admission of air and the decay of roots render the condition of the subsoil such that it may be brought up and mixed with the surface-soil, without injuring its quality.
Sub-soiling is similar to under-draining in continuing the tillering of grasses, and in getting rid of the poisonous excrementitious matter of plants.
Why does under-draining increase the absorptive power of the soil?
How does under-draining supply to the soil an increased amount of atmospheric fertilizers?
Where there are large boulders in the soil, these draining tools may dig under them so that they will not have to be removed.
How does sub-soiling resemble under-draining in relation to the tillering of grasses?
Under-draining furnishes an increased supply of atmospheric fertilizers, because it secures a change of air in the soil.
The foregoing are some of the more important reasons why under-draining is always beneficial.
Under-draining is the best means of doing this, as it is the best means of lessening the evaporation.
For instance, we rode by a vast green plain, skirting a lake and river, which is now useless almost for pasture, and which a little draining will convert into thousands of acres of rich productive land.
