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up for settlement by adding to the height of the wall as it
subsides. I do not, by any regard this process
or
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satisfactory
admissible, unless it be
inevitable under the
circumstances. On this point. however, I should prefer not to express a final opinion, untit the further data are at hand. from the Surveyor General, as to the modified section for the wall which he appears
to have in contemplation in the 17th paragraph of his Report i e provided his proposed. further investigations
as to
the
the nature of the bottom, and of
the Works of a sin
similar character
already executed, appear to justify
a departure in this respect from the design for the wall hitherto
adopted.
12. With regard to the concrete-in mass proposed for the rubble berm in my Report 8th December 1888, this should of 28 Dec
consist of one portion of cemont to five of gravel and sand, deposited through a shoot of about 8 square internally, having a hopper
eceiver
at the
top end. This shoot would
extend from the working
platform
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