4
68.
notion of the height and consequently
the force of
during typhoons.
of
the
serviceable
For this, in fact, the whole
photographs will
prove
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data because they portray the class of houses ment and which were exposed for
hours to the direct impact
houses which live the imban
of brick and nighteen
-
mches thick
and their foundations like those of the verandah – piers, when not built directly upon the solid pock.
sist
Con
...
of granite foolings laid. cement concrete as shown in Drawing
ho 25. The bricks used are
manufacture and
English
of native
of
the heaviest seas recorded in
Hong
very inferior to while the mortar is
hong.
as a
rule
poor
in lime, and
the
These buildings three stored, the basements being
are for the most part
lime itself of oyster - shells and
Mon
- hydraulic .
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offices
AL
hous
and the upper flous
A t
work shop
hone
of
the house walls or
VA an
--
suffered material
dwillings. Most of them have
-andahs of brick arches or
grauiter beams resting
horizontal
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brick pins
two feet wide by eighteen inches thick
The house walls themselves are also.
dak-piers fill
injury during the Great Ryphoon,
thoughs
no double, had the gale
continued
✰.....
longer, many few hours longer,
along the Praya Central would have
been undermined.
of
This