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such observations
spirit
be received in the
inay
they are offered,
and
that they
not taken as in
any way intending
to or firms,
lest on individualo
to reflect
but
simply as prompted by a desire to place myself in touch with the
Engineers
at
home
terials
inaterialo
otte
concerning the
the excellence of which
mutually interested in securing. reports from the Colonies are
wa
Such
often useful
to the Crown Agents who I am
evere
would not like to discourage them.
my
letter to
oh
you of the 7th of June 1886, I stated I was able
to confirm, from personal knowledge,
the
སོ་སོ་ག་གས་དཀ་དར་གདབྱེ
of the tests that had
been made under
under my
directions
the Resident Engineer. This
nothing.
by
than the fact, and I
do not therefore desire to disclaim
my povsonal responsibility for the
test,
or to leave
my
merely carried out my instructions. At an earlier period of my professional life
I personally designed and created cement.
Fi
Works in the in
and
midway
Area
Rochester,
I have since had a continuous
practical experience of reearly twenty five years
in the uses and
testing of Portland Cement. I conscientionely feel therefore that Mr Stangein crificiens are not deserved. Much might be put -
forward by
me in vindication.
of the
test made here under my directions,
but it
can
serve
tro
useful purpose now
to begin in these pages a professional n
no
polemia on Cement -
testing,
the
only result of which would be to appear to place me in antagonism with the Impecting Officers appointed by Her Majesty' Governme on a question has already been adjudicated on by the Secretary of State
subordinate
Officer
6.
alone to the consequences of having
ment.
that
There is no material in the
purchase of which large
Consumero
avre
merely