414
'
badway. When the embankment shall have
become sufficiently consolidated
it is.
d to cover
proposed to
cover the entire
surface of the Praya roadway with
a
a crust or shell of lime (4 to 1) concreté of
thickness
of
18 inches.
port of du 18/4/
the
187447.
ball
hydraulie
average
quiation of the Praya
was fully reported Colonial Office, and a
On
to the
reference to
the Reports of that period will show that the old structure, not witholand- ing that it was
inherently weak and
defective in desion and construce-
tion, would have withstood the
the most severe typhoon
Assault
of
that had ever bun recorded in China, but for the circumstanco. that the earth backing, forming the Praya Embankment, was
washed
out
.....