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reclamation having gouined upon
the natural are, we have at
last got to face the contingency of working
in places where the water is way dep, neverticl of
it is
day.
rapidly shoaling up every
As
I think that in contemplating fiiture reclamation works the
Government cannot
agorove
eventualis
tims like the for going. The sna
wall now under discussion may
in the
Cause
of a few
like its predecesion, find
perhaps
years
tbeef
iiv
hear
many
places in the
be
of what may Praya in poke and in
localities where such a
a
new
the
propiability
luck's however re
remotely,
I
world
be both to recommend the expand of a permanent
defence).
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great
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For such places I would)
recommend the present style of
structive, which emsists of
an
inferior masonry of small stones,
but I would add to it
in lieu
emcrete in.
backing of puddled clay
hitherto
a
of
generally
adopted. It is true that after
every typhoon such
a...
wall would
general
require pointing and a overhauling, but it is not litesty
that it world
fall evrept lufue
the force of typhons such.