The flooding of other lands besides those intended to be warped is the great risk which the undertakers of these improvements have to incur, and against which they take all possible care to guard, by making their works sufficiently strong; but notwithstanding all the precautions which can be used, the banks will occasionally give way, especially when a high wind causes the water to press with great additional force on one particular part, and overflowing the adjoining crops, does considerable damage. Sometimes the sluice head, through which the water is admitted from the Trent, gives way, and then the damage done is very serious indeed. This was the case some years since with a sluice at East Butterwick, the private property of Messrs. Hall and Peacock, and with one called the Spectacle Head, in West Butterwick, which was private property also.

By the act of 1816, which was passed to amend the first act for Crowle Inclosure, full power was given to the Commissioners to warp certain lands in the parish of Belton called the Pilfrey, and certain lands in the parish of Adlingfleet called Rainsbutt, in addition to the lands capable of this improvement in Crowle and Luddington, containing upwards of two thousand acres, which in their natural state were totally unfit for tillage. To carry this great improvement on with effect, they were empowered to enter the lands of all the Proprietors, in order to make the necessary works; to make sufficient drains and sea sluices at Keadby and Amcoats, in the parish of Althorpe ; to raise the necessary funds by assessment on the lands to be improved; and to make compensation to such individuals as might suffer any damage by their operations.

This great improvement is now almost completed, and will, I have no doubt, amply compensate the liberal and intelligent undertakers for all the trouble and expence which they have incurred.