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reclamation having gouined upon

the natural are, we have at

last got to face the contingency of working

in places where the water is way dep, neverticl of

it is

day.

rapidly shoaling up every

As

I think that in contemplating fiiture reclamation works the

Government cannot

agorove

eventualis

tims like the for going. The sna

wall now under discussion may

in the

Cause

of a few

like its predecesion, find

perhaps

years

tbeef

iiv

hear

many

places in the

be

of what may Praya in poke and in

localities where such a

a

new

the

propiability

luck's however re

remotely,

I

world

be both to recommend the expand of a permanent

defence).

18.

great

Bea

For such places I would)

recommend the present style of

structive, which emsists of

an

inferior masonry of small stones,

but I would add to it

in lieu

emcrete in.

backing of puddled clay

hitherto

a

of

generally

adopted. It is true that after

every typhoon such

a...

wall would

general

require pointing and a overhauling, but it is not litesty

that it world

fall evrept lufue

the force of typhons such.