The channel of the Lery,
between which and the sea the hotel is built, runs parallel to the
coastline, till it meets at right angles the estuary of the Dovey. The
same tide which washes the beach also fills the Lery channel and the
adjoining ditches. When the ebb has set in the water in the latter
stands for a time at a higher level than on the beach. Reflecting on
this, our engineers cut a duct between the Lery and the sea, so as to
draw the water from the river down the main drainage artery, performing
twice daily a most effective flushing.
Some of us would have preferred to leave a more dignified memorial of
ourselves, forgetting, perhaps, that it is a Cloaca which is the most
impressive witness to the civilised resources of an ancient king. So an
offer was made to the proprietors that, if they would find the tools and
directors of the work, the school would provide the labourers for the
making of a road between the village and the church, an interval of a
furlong of marshy land, bridged at that time by a makeshift causeway.
They did not, however, see their way to accept our amateur industry, and
the project fell through.
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