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of the consulting Engineer the action of

the sea

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that occasions by the

photographs and particulars

given

further.

in this

o n

paper and

which

will I bust charly show that in

no

lou

way to which we

are exposed, here

those Compared to

the effect of the seas

be

witnesses

along the courts of England after

South Westerly

AY

north westiely zales

and that consequently the utmost that circumstances demand for Hong Kong is a better class of fiver wall and

under the coming

an exposed sea-

not a

structure

alegmy of defence in the

ordinary acceptation of that term

General Remarks.

Before going

DM-

to describe the claus

of masonry destroyed by the Great Typhoon

the proposed

worke

of

or the details

of

restoration and their cost

a word of explanation

mary

be".

desirables with reference to the Condi- tions under which the Praga

criginally built and to the diffientling which, apart from the question of

ways

and

attach to the

pesh peclamations in deeper water.

It

ceived that in

may readily

essentially

to

mercial and maritime

Hong Ko

Rong

A

be

Colony

Add

wole side.

pre

mixes are

value. marine lots-

of the greatest value

have been in fact always sold by

The