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Memorandum relating to the Erschange.

The entire building is constructed in the most substantial manner and of the very

best materials.

The

whole of the foundations are on

Manila hardwood piles, above 12. feet long and

Mone

- less than nine inches square; horizontal plates 10 x 9 are

placed

on the top of the piles

3 in width on which transverse large stones are

Laid and solid stone-work continued thereon.

up.

to the ground line, above which 2 ft. 6 in of solid hammer-dressed masonry is placed; the external walls throughout are brick laid flush

in mortar. 2 ft. thick, the internal 1.6 and 1.2 thick; all apertures are carefully guarded

with strong relieving archess.

The wall-plates and,

ground floors

floors

are

joists to the

of teak, the girders for upper

are also of teak, and the remaining

timbers for joists and roofing are of hard. pitch-