On the Reclamation And Protection of Agricultural Land
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The next branch of the subject, embracing the reclamation of lands on the shores of estuaries, introduces a different feature ; and although ihuch that has already been said regarding currents and embankments wiU be found to apply to reclamations in estuaries, yet the lands we are about to consider in one respect at least differ from those already noticed, inasmuch as, being within sea mark, they are subject to all the influences consequent on the constant flow and ehh of the tides. The object ...of such works is to reclaim those low lying sand- banks, mudbanks, and marshes to be found in aU estuaries and outfalls of rivers which are left dry on the receding of the ON THE RECLAMATION OF AGEICULTURAL LAND. 23 tide, and are thus, according to their level, rendered more or less easUy convertible into pasture or corn-growing land. It is not for the agriculturists of the British Isles alone that the subject of reclamation has an interest. Even in the United States of America, with all its vast tracts of unoccupied land, attention is now being directed to gaining land on the margins of the bays and estuaries on the eastern shores of the country ; and the National Society of Paris have recently invited communi- cations to be made to them during the year 1874, "on the embankment and reclamation of land from the sea." Still more recently, Mr Eintoul, of Kingston, in East Lothian, has sug- gested that our Government might profitably make use of the Crown right to the foreshores within high-water mark by form- ing sea embankments.
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