In place of the Overfall he constructed three shallow sluices and one deep scouring sluice, between the harbour and the New Cut, together with a dredging vessel, known as a drag boat, to scrape the silt away from the quay walls.
22.
Located at the southern end of the overfall, it houses the end of a conduit from Farm Pond, a pipe connecting this reservoir to numbers 2 and 3, and gates for channeling water either into the Farm Pond conduit or into the river.
23.
In order to ease the problems caused by the north bank, the Black Sluice Commissioners negotiated with the Trustees to allow them to build a set of flood gates at Tongue End, where the river joined the Glen, and an overfall weir, which allowed surplus water to flow over the bank and into the Weir Dyke in Bourne Fen.
24.
�i, a captain in the general staff, first became to the general public after giving a lecture entitled " Det strategiske overfall " ('The Strategic Attack') to the officers'society, Oslo Milit�re Samfund, on 6 March 1939 . In this lecture, �i stated that Norway had inadequate defences and was vulnerable to a foreign attack.
25.
The entrance to Hudson Strait was discovered in 1578 by Sir Martin Frobisher, the English navigator, who named a tidal rip at the entrance the Furious Overfall, and called the strait "'Mistaken Strait "', since he felt it held less promise as an entrance to the Northwest Passage than the body of water that was later named Frobisher Bay.
