BREACH AT LEAHY'S
Sir, — Although I am not personally interested in the discussions re Douslin's log Datna, which have occupied your space and attention lately, I cannot allow Mr Dooson's letter to pass without making the following statement, and leave the matter to your readers to draw their conclusions. On the Bth ins!;. I drove a pair of horses and carriage containing three gentlemen to Leary's Breach. I drove across the old river bed, the water not being higher than my horses hocks, and running very slowly. I took my trap behind the Dam and turned round on a dry shingle bed, was then requested to cross the new channel, but considered il; impossible, the water being very deep and running rapidly, had I attempted to cross I feel certain that I should have been washed down. One of my passengers measured the width of the river (new channel) and found it to be one hundred and twenty feet. — Yours &c.
Edward Mason.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XII, Issue 940, 28 July 1877, Page 7
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