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Excerpt from Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, Vol. 3: Part I, January 1855 I. - On the Heavy Fall of Rain in Hobart Town, on the 26th and 27th of February, 1854, with reference to the Sewerage, Drainage, &c., of the City. By His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, F. R. S., &c. [Read 8th March, 1854.] In laying before the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land the accompanying return of the amount of rain which fell on Sunday and Monday, the 26th and 27th February, I wish to draw attention to the bearing of the facts thus brought prominently under notice, upon the question of the Sewerage of the Town, to which allusion was made in a paper read by me at the meeting of the Society in November 1853. In that paper I pointed out the necessity of proportioning the size of the sewer to the maximum amount of water which would have to pass through it, and I also drew attention to the fact, that the water would be discharged more rapidly into the main sewer from a surface properly drained than when it was left to find its own way through narrow, tortuous, and imperfect channels, and, therefore, that the more perfect the system of drainage, the larger must be the main outlet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.