Item 02: Arthur Henson Smith letters, 8 January 1917-19 August 1919 - Page 66
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[Page 66]
more inches and the drainage from the banks and higher ground around adds yet another few inches by the middle of Feb. that road may hold ice nearly a couple of feet in thickness. Then the thaw starts. The ice melts & the snow on the ground around gradually melts & drains off to the low road till that road is just a running river. In a couple of days so much traffic has passed over that road that it becomes just a long track of knee-deep, and, often, waist-deep, mud. Such a road is just handy to us here and it is now in such a shocking state in parts that traffic prefer to go across country as the road is quite impossible. The same state of things is not confined to roads solely