masses and fall with greater force on the road surface; the bronosal therefore to avoid such projections as would be formed by Solid Stops should be adopted

Carrying out the works of reconstruction - As kurther bearing rson this question it-

تتى

may

be well to point out that showed it hereafter be deemed Imperative, to construel- Additional solid getties outside tthe line of the Praça such fetites Should be connected with the osale by timber piling supporting a roadway, arranged to form an opening of Sufficient length between the Praya and the Solid work to afford full bent for the sea during by phoons. Another minor matter which

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wight here be touched upon is the desirability of providing hinged

tide Alans to the mouths of all

Culverts and drains as misored

by the Surveyor General!- Cases have come betere Sir John Goode of crious damage to marine works owing

to the concentration

of air in times of stams through the absence of this simple provision.

with regard

to the proposed

removal of rock outside the wootings by the use of dynamite, I Would Suggest that an experiment be made in this direction by applying

the explosive on the suriace, and so saving the cost of drilling holes this

system of surface blasting has been relinity, applied by Sir John Goode in

a Somers hat similar case with Satisfactory results. The expose

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