CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 52

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four inches, after which the stoves lapered off into wedge shapes and

rounded backs, and it

to this

very inadequate

Lot-

swing amount of

flat bearing surface that such slowes

lept dropping out of the wall

from it's lower

CoursLS

Loca

during ty

phoons, leaving square holes in the

ture.

Consisted

the wall like the one

be

face of hind the piece of rope in the pic -

The hoo uppermost courses

of larger and much better shaped stones and would have afforded greater protection to the work beneath them had not the coping been

projected beyond the wall with

a round moulding which caught every sea that dashed against the structure,

the

the effect of which

was to loosen the their up-

coping stones and pender

its

heaval by subsequent seas easier. The foundations of the old wall are only feature that directly interests us

which I have minutely

now, and

24.4.

examined along the whole line. They consist of roughly squared foolings laid close and uniform qustaposi-

tion as headers and are

from five to five and a

half feet long and from leventy to twenty four inches square. It is condent that the original builders attacheds much greater importance to the character of the foundations than to the superstructures for the sides of the fookings have been sufficiently well.

dressed to ad-

mit of fairly close joints between them.

In