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Seen that puins alternate here and there with pieces of wall yet standing though

Ass injured. The following explanation accounts for this. Du pe- cent times Hong Kong has been onsited. bez a typhoon

avdage every

three

au

in the

mouth of

asion.

spears, generally september. After every such

دی القسم الالم

short pieces of the Prage Central have

had to be repaired, and it

appeals

de cissors

ha

slover

that as a

rule

my pre rebuilt these with the same.

set however in bydraulic lime mortar

and this

masoury

has been strengthened

by three feet of hydraulic line

con-

cretes backing of very indifferent quality. Such patches, had they not been dis-

connected would no doubt have

withstood the Great Zyphoon

the