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The mode of construction proposed viz, a mound of grauite qubble, is the best that could be adopted having regard to the jadthar bû work is required for sheltering surposes crec, and that an abundance of
Suitable material is close at Rand, but it would not be hrudent to reckon won the permanent stabilite of the work wniers the slopes are made
Matter than suggested by the Surveyor General. Not with standing the fact that the Breakevater rived be bartiale, sheltered from the leaviestofke Typhoon seas, it must be bome in mind that an endon very oblique sea produces
a greater wasting action ana rubble mound, then one
Whien
which is sucre transverse. Considering also the damag cone to the Praca walls from time to time by by phoons, which indicate a heavy wave stroke in that portion of the Harbour protage I think after taking due allowance 42 the recre sheltered position of the proposed Breakwater, thar Steeper slopes than those Shewn on Fig. 2 on the enclosed Grace, wined not prove permanents The Section described in the
Surveyor General's Report is
shewn in Fig. 1.
The mound riched ve tiprex from two tranmiars, ne at the formation level, and the other at 3 feet above High rater
of Spring Eides the object of Vais arrangement is is probl
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