Fri 9 Feb 1776
Mr Cambridge's opinion on the dangers of flooding being caused by the canal.
Feb 9th 1776
AVC has more land cut and more in danger of being drowned than any proprietor. He is of opinion that the hazards the landowners run may in many cases be over paid by saving the roads, which can not be mended, therefore should be saved: and if the interest on one side is probably a ballance to the hazard on the other, the turn of the scale should be given to the expectation of the publick utility. This is the opinion of JWC who has much land to hazard and of JWR who has the next greatest proportion
