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lowered six or eight large boulders, weighing from 4 to 8 tons each, to be placed on the upraised corner which had been raised with a view to giving stability to the structure and thereby preventing any further displacement by the raising of the ground under the piles during the construction of the foundations of the Sea Wall in front of Marine Lot 185. The boulders placed on the corner of the wharf caused the piles to settle about 6 inches in 24 hours, bearing the corner wharf about one foot above its normal height (as shown by the tinted portion in Appendix A.5.2).
The construction of the "pierre perdue" of the Sea Wall ...