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Estimate of the expence of carrying into execution the plan of embankment recommended by Sir Thomas Hyde Page for the improvement of the drainage of the south and middle levels and other lands having their drainage through the river Ouse and for the improvement of the navigation of that river and other rivers communicating therewith
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A meeting of the subscribers to the expence which may attend taking a plan or survey for a navigable cut or canal, from this town to form a junction with the rivers Ure or Ouse, will be held in the Sessions-House on Tuesday next the 4th of Feb. ... to appoint a committee for the purpose of getting the same immediately survey'd.
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Remarks on the reasonings and different opinions laid down in some late printed proposals for restoring the navigation of the ports of King's-Lynn and Wisbich, and draining of the great levels which have the outfall of their waters by the Rivers Ouse and the Nean, thro Mortons-Leam
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An answer, paragraph by paragraph, to * A report of the present state of the great level of the Fens, call'd Bedford-Level, and of the port of Lynn, and of the River Ouse, &c. And also * to a scheme propos'd by Mr. Charles Bridgman, for the effectual draining those Fens, ... Drawn from authentick testimonies ... and from a survey made in the years 1723, 1724
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An act for draining and preserving certain fen lands in the isle of Ely, and county of Norfolk, lying between the hundred foot river and the Ouse, and bounded on the south by the hard lands of Mepall, Wicham, Wentworth, Wichford, Ely, Downham, and Littleport; and for impowering the governor, bailiffs, and commonalty of the Company of Conservators of the great level of the fens, commonly called Bedford level, to sell certain lands lying within the limits aforesaid, commonly called invested lands
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