is apparently nearing its close. We can only hope that a livable autumn will compensate for the freaks of the two past quarters. Such a broiling sun, such withering winds, such violent storms, such downpours of rain, such destructive tides, this region sees on an average but once in a life-time. Passing one of the main sluices of our caval system on the 22nd instant we saw the salt water rushing over the lock at {a depth of two feet. Our boatman remarked: "The Heavenly Father is going to punish Many fields have been laid waste in this fertile plain, and will need much extra Inbour before they can be was washed away, and a Inrge population replanted. A little south of us a long dike
will be without fields for the next two or three years. How much a Government is now needed to step in to the breach and see that the dyke is rebuilt promptly and substantially.
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