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This resistance to such prolonged

percussive action,

structures.

the part of inherently weak in

so inhe

respect of quality of

doubtless en

entirely

Cohesion

due

materials

to the greats the latter under the

the

expper

stories

walls had to

of heavy weight of which the piers and support, but whatever the

proves that the

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it

which swept

the embankment that night at

pris au.

height of five feet above normal high-tide level could not have been of great height or force.

ww

woll

to the work

With regard therefore to the

which is to be built or of repairs a locked position of the harbour,

Conse

: deration of the land

its

enclosure

enclosure by high lands, the short distances of the windward shore, the reduced height of

short a

tion

of

wa vid

flch of sea

dere

to so

the brief dura -

the wind from the north

Eastern quarter of

suly formidable

the compass the

one

for us,

great obliquity of the wall

Cost or

the

to the

general point of wind cul-

mination, the extre

shoot water

ely she

extremely

extending for out abreast of the Praya

Cast: causing the

waved

to crest and

expend themselves before they reach the shore in that quarter, and the protection afforded to the western

end of the Praga by the pennisula of Kowloon, will I venture to hope, Commend to the

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approval of the Consulting

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