The plan Spropose for this
service has been submitted for approval, vide Report and Estimate N° 15 of 1845– Road to Aberdeen; The Estimates. &o
of 1844 prepared for the construction of this Road,
a
12 and 12a
cented
香
(at the seperate ratée of Exchange) £4543:15:41; the works we're commoned
in January 1845, and I had hoped to
complete them the hot season,
before e ground tumed out. more rocky
but the
more.
and difficult of excavation than
LOG
contemplated ; only one quarry of building
found
the line, and I
stone
had therefore to transport almost the whole quantity from
Sookewan at a
very great expense, first for the hire of the boats, and secondly the labour of carrying the stone up so great a height, the summit level being 525 feet above
high water.
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The exceedingly heavy
thank
occurred.
occurred in.
did
May, to the Road, owing
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considerable damage.
to its
unconsolidated
state; the stone drains were unfinished,
and the Calchwater drains incomplete, and the Estimate Nr 3 of 1845 to Repair these d
damages and prevent the
the
arre
water
in future, such increasing way of the Bridges and
amounted to the
Son of $ 4,033.92.
The height to which the River
VAR
rose at the falls at Pokefolum, feet above its natural level, the whole- of the Village and cultivated, ground
flooded in consequence, by
waz
which no les than 18 persons are said to have been drooned. It is therefore so far: lucky that the greater number of the Bridges the line
orr
sexe
not sinished.
must
at that time, otherwise they have been inevitably destroyed. The
works were
necessarily stopped during
the hot season, and the current behairs
evere