SALINES DE BAGNAS (Hérault). CANAL DES DEUX-MERS. TOULOUSE ( - Lot 367

SALINES DE BAGNAS (Hérault). CANAL DES DEUX-MERS. TOULOUSE (Haute-Garonne) 8 Fructidor An 12 (August 26, 1804). Letter signed CLAUSADE l'Ingénieur en Chef des Ponts et Chaussées, et du Canal des Deux Mers, to Mr GAULET Ingénieur, Directeur à AGDE (Hérault): "The owners of the BAGNAS saltworks have opened a parallel counter-ditch beyond the counter-channel, into which they receive the water from the land up to the point where it meets their envelope dike. Between the ditch and the counter-canal is a tongue of land, or frambord, which the owners of the Salines had pierced to empty the waters that flooded them in Vendémiaire An 5..." he urges him to examine the state of the site more closely "and to inform me of anything that might have been changed there to the detriment of the Canal... All their sewers and étiers must be directed into the Etang de Thau by ditches opened in their land..." 3 pages in-4°, foxing.