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influeerd by typhoons in the har

bour

of

Victoria that

prompted:

upted the

designers of the first wall to adopt

so very inferior

a.

class.

of masonry

a. Crous

/

as that of the Praga Contral

Section

which

of -lograph h. 1.

shewn in Pho-

The character

of

the whole

of

the old

riginal masonry of that period which

uniformly bod above foundation lovel is bruthfully represented by this new, and it will be perceived that

with the exception:

the work

may

of

the

face

stones

be described almost

coursed rubble.

As s

the beds

of

masonry, for

for the

the stones were

most parts so extremely roughly scappled. as to necessitate an

- due quantity of spolds and mortar

to

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PHOTOGRAPH

SHEWING

CROSS

SECTION

THE

40

070

WALL

ALONG

PRAYA

CENTRAL.