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I BELIEVE that instances of rats gnawing through water-pipes are frequent. Two have come to my Knowledge during the past fortnight. The one instance occurred at the house of a gentleman near West Hartlepool; in the other case a large hole, 31/4 inches long, and varying from 11/36ths of an inch to 11/5th inch in breadth, was gnawed in the fresh-water pipe of the screw steamer Mary Coverdale. A portion of this pipe, containing the hole, was cut off, and is preserved by me; it is a stout leaden pipe, a quarter of an inch thick, and with a diameter, of 23/8 inches. It is very doubtful whether there was any flaw, before, the hole was begun.
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MIDDLETON, R. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 19, 460 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019460a0
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