CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6] — Page 169

The plan Spropose for this

service has been submitted for approval, vide Report and Estimate N° 15 of 1845– Road to Aberdeen; The Estimates. &o

of 1844 prepared for the construction of this Road,

a

12 and 12a

cented

香

(at the seperate ratée of Exchange) £4543:15:41; the works we're commoned

in January 1845, and I had hoped to

complete them the hot season,

before e ground tumed out. more rocky

but the

more.

and difficult of excavation than

LOG

contemplated ; only one quarry of building

found

the line, and I

stone

had therefore to transport almost the whole quantity from

Sookewan at a

very great expense, first for the hire of the boats, and secondly the labour of carrying the stone up so great a height, the summit level being 525 feet above

high water.

い

The exceedingly heavy

thank

occurred.

occurred in.

did

May, to the Road, owing

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considerable damage.

to its

unconsolidated

state; the stone drains were unfinished,

and the Calchwater drains incomplete, and the Estimate Nr 3 of 1845 to Repair these d

damages and prevent the

the

arre

water

in future, such increasing way of the Bridges and

amounted to the

Son of $ 4,033.92.

The height to which the River

VAR

rose at the falls at Pokefolum, feet above its natural level, the whole- of the Village and cultivated, ground

flooded in consequence, by

waz

which no les than 18 persons are said to have been drooned. It is therefore so far: lucky that the greater number of the Bridges the line

orr

sexe

not sinished.

must

at that time, otherwise they have been inevitably destroyed. The

works were

necessarily stopped during

the hot season, and the current behairs

evere