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Memorandum relating to the Erschange.
The entire building is constructed in the most substantial manner and of the very
best materials.
The
whole of the foundations are on
Manila hardwood piles, above 12. feet long and
Mone
- less than nine inches square; horizontal plates 10 x 9 are
placed
on the top of the piles
3 in width on which transverse large stones are
Laid and solid stone-work continued thereon.
up.
to the ground line, above which 2 ft. 6 in of solid hammer-dressed masonry is placed; the external walls throughout are brick laid flush
in mortar. 2 ft. thick, the internal 1.6 and 1.2 thick; all apertures are carefully guarded
with strong relieving archess.
The wall-plates and,
ground floors
floors
are
joists to the
of teak, the girders for upper
are also of teak, and the remaining
timbers for joists and roofing are of hard. pitch-