The new cut canal, intended for improving the navigation of the city of Chester : with the low lands adjacent to the river Dee, compared with the Welland, alias Spalding river, now silted up, and deeping-fens adjacent, now drowned : also arguments to prove that as the River Welland and Deeping Fenns were destroyed by imbanking salt marshes. - Badeslade, Thomas. ([publisher not identified],, 1736)