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or
four inches, after which the stoves lapered off into wedge shapes and
rounded backs, and it
to this
very inadequate
Lot-
swing amount of
flat bearing surface that such slowes
lept dropping out of the wall
from it's lower
CoursLS
Loca
during ty
phoons, leaving square holes in the
ture.
Consisted
the wall like the one
be
face of hind the piece of rope in the pic -
The hoo uppermost courses
of larger and much better shaped stones and would have afforded greater protection to the work beneath them had not the coping been
projected beyond the wall with
a round moulding which caught every sea that dashed against the structure,
the
the effect of which
was to loosen the their up-
coping stones and pender
its
heaval by subsequent seas easier. The foundations of the old wall are only feature that directly interests us
which I have minutely
now, and
24.4.
examined along the whole line. They consist of roughly squared foolings laid close and uniform qustaposi-
tion as headers and are
from five to five and a
half feet long and from leventy to twenty four inches square. It is condent that the original builders attacheds much greater importance to the character of the foundations than to the superstructures for the sides of the fookings have been sufficiently well.
dressed to ad-
mit of fairly close joints between them.
In