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Sa me
way
that the Praga Cast and
Graya West withstood it., but they al- ternated almost at every hundred
the original
feel with equal lengths of defective wall into which they bonded, so
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a
wire
that the strictiere taken.
whole lacked the strength and
resistance of uniformity. In this state the typhoon of 1874, wholly expre- the history of
the Colony and in the knowledge of the oldest
edented in the
inhabitants
of
other
ports of China
put the wall
its trial with the
natural result shown
No. 2. This test.
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photograph
o we
of
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casurably beyond anything in severity that could have been accid possible by its original de- signers, for the storm happened to
culminate at high tide.
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from the North East and
ing
the
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escape of
Pass
and the wind.
Carl arrest
the ebb through the
as shown in
che
paised the
level of the harbon.
(Drawing No 25 (not the level of
arests
of
the
waves) nearly five feet above High Wales mark in
Spring tides
thus allowing the waves to dash
LAH
opposed against the house prouts as of no Praya
bulwork of mung
kinds existed.
been
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for
01
hours the Praya poodway had
scooped
out and
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quence breastwork subacked by concrete chrown down
the old portions of the
masonry
or pulled out by the book. succession of open gapo
bush leaving
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through which the sea
Las
able to
flank