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This resistance to such prolonged
percussive action,
structures.
the part of inherently weak in
so inhe
respect of quality of
doubtless en
entirely
Cohesion
due
materials
to the greats the latter under the
the
expper
stories
walls had to
of heavy weight of which the piers and support, but whatever the
proves that the
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it
which swept
the embankment that night at
pris au.
height of five feet above normal high-tide level could not have been of great height or force.
ww
woll
to the work
With regard therefore to the
which is to be built or of repairs a locked position of the harbour,
Conse
: deration of the land
its
enclosure
enclosure by high lands, the short distances of the windward shore, the reduced height of
short a
tion
of
wa vid
flch of sea
dere
to so
the brief dura -
the wind from the north
Eastern quarter of
suly formidable
the compass the
one
for us,
great obliquity of the wall
Cost or
the
to the
general point of wind cul-
mination, the extre
shoot water
ely she
extremely
extending for out abreast of the Praya
Cast: causing the
waved
to crest and
expend themselves before they reach the shore in that quarter, and the protection afforded to the western
end of the Praga by the pennisula of Kowloon, will I venture to hope, Commend to the
Con currnu kud
approval of the Consulting
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