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rond

or 1/2

only £34. 12.3" on 2.860 yards, on ₤3 per yard the averaging sofect, and on a portion of this where the rond is 1 in 12 I have expended. £10- Sterling on 400 yards or so per yard, width_

Mead 38

$ feet.

of

The repairs to the wooden Bridges in the Mongneichung Valley have been

very

considerable this

year, and I much regret I built worden Bridges here ales, but with regard to the main

Bridge of two Spans of 30 feet each without great expence

forming the approaches I could not: have built-

Lil

stone arches, and this in conjunction with the

arches themselves would have trebled the cat

to two

of the

Bridge, but the same does not apply

anvaller

Bridges

weed at an

where stone might have been

advance upon the riginal ent

of Construction...

expence

Upon two Bridges here the greatect

was not with the wood work or _

" planking but as a further protection to the : tone foundations which were undermined

during the heavy

£55 to

heavy rains;

rains; these required

the

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Lusse

them, and to the large Bridge.

31

of

ak

additional two inch plank was placed on the

platform for the prevention of accidents, as these timbers occasionally snapped asunder without showing externally any-

any apparent

eaule. n

buttons of decay. This service amounted to symptoms £66.13.2.

it is

Road Wongreichung to Saison. This Nord Extends a dictance of 5 miles, mat of it along the sea shore and much exposed to the run of the tides and thus sustains at times

of high water spring tides and heavy weather considerable. damage. Injury to this Road is also frequently

caused

by the neglect of the quarrymen in the neighbourhood who stop up the drains and channels with the débris from the quarries, and this in conjunction with the excessive.

of

the

• quantity f the same material washed down frome hills during sains render this line although almost level the most expensive one in

the

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