Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)

Rik Roots scripsit:

> I grew up with sluices, used to drain water from the Romney Marshes into the
> sea at low tide.
        [A] motorist would not be allowed to appeal to the customs of
        the sea because he was crossing the Romney Marshes, on the ground
        that that land used to be sea.
                --_Rumpelheimer v. Haddock_ [actually by A. P. Herbert]

> On a tangent, if anyone enjoys stories of Governments
> spending vast amounts of money on white elephants, the story of the Royal
> Military Canal may prove entertaining:
A fine tale, indeed.

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it will inevitably walk again.          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan