CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 104

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mud is felt.

underlying

the

soft mus

From this it happens that longitudinal section along the toe taken in the paing

of

the wall if taken

i

wn show the ground live in the vicinity of the hullah outfalls

above (gw Water mark (5 W. Monsoon)

while

IK.

the day

ber dredgings

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above that leach.

season after the Nove-

lau

nowhere appear

It is not pretended, that theser

very greally counteract the

great sitting processes of nature but it

is certain that they go

bay

A

towards pool posing

considerable

at all eventi

for the present generation of Colonials,

one time possible.

The

the foreshores would. be much facilitated if the Military

and Naval Authorities could be duced wither to embank their lands

or to allow the Colonial Government

to do

so for them without imposing

for this work

Conditions.

to

heavy

as to render its attainment practically

hopeless. The jagged and broken shores

line

of

the Imperial Government

the number of projie-

and the

premises and. - hous shown in Drawing h?!,

the

many

1

drain pipes and

not shown, running down

also

to low

water mark have all combined to

accumulate sands to such an exchat

the sever

outlets

wall left

that

The contingency of being choked and the

dry

in

de a

"any places that appeared ab

a low

lying foreshow ex- lends out about 100 fut in places

one

and)

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