CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873 — Page 54

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of causing the Wacker to be delivered at a coola kemperechere - possibly Huse Summits may bewuster be used in other ways turned to a profitable account in connection Arth hamways. us but a very sendel pation

of the Tunnel is required for the actueel &

weeks chammet.

The uchrative moote of conveying the waker is by means of a Conduct round the hile having the bust fall requisite top maritoun au wew flow, and to deliver & the quantity in the geven lines.

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It would be necesary to excuvak af path way ni solnch the wake channel coud be forund For His I sued recommend!

brich work set in Cement - and with thes bottour and sides afterwards rendered if Cement short lengths of Fennel speceding 100 feet lony or thew abouts. would luvve to be made,

I'm places in order to cut- off the sharp points of hills - and in

and in other places, such us in cross of recornes ._._ semel lengths of Cust row peking or even Merought A con box gaiders might be criplay d withß Jale.

advantage - mstead of making large. ambankments with long culverts under theend.

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All these works would add mahually

to the expense - biet even mating fair allowance) for them; and also for covering in the whole lingth of the Conduit with slabs of granit» it would be? fund to be much cheaper in prst cost, theref This latter how over would havep Jenmellency

Uw advantage of being the more direct lineß- and therefore the shorter- and the cost of r maintenance er - renewal would be infiniksimully omall compured with the former, which pom its exposure would be so much more hatte injury and leakage(`·

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A judicious use of the murdern appliances - of making funnels such as the Diamond Nock boring Machine to _ would enable such Work to be executed much more cleaply and, rapidly them the old method of hand labour.

Before however proceeding further with Hies subject – I nnst hon to the third cause of defect cohnch is that of the service

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These are petuated at too low levels to

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