CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 74

73

that they

DAL

well surrounded

and

Carefully separated from each other by the concrete. This will matini

-ally

cheapen.

the latter.

A mixture rich enough in cement

to set at once-

necessary from

the shortness of the times available. for the hardening of the foundations.

which cannot be begun until the

setting

一

of

South West

the low tides

joan doen.

the

of about the

pot of June, but which must be completed with the almost sopedi

tion so

to allow

of

the

onavonzy high a

boel

being

as

advanced to

possible by September, the mouth

of possible typhoons.

Foundations on Gravel.

abreast

the

of proposed small re-

clamation

peclamation it from

the

Corner

the

present wall at Whites steps to a point

exactly half

18 and

between Grove Dechous

wa of 19 (810 Drawing

5

along water & feet

ho 3) and,

in the deepest part

& feet in the shallowest, it is con

And 2

templateds to drive every ten feet an inver and outer pow of quide, piles to notch and boll walings to the and to drive sheet piling, for

the

pove of retaining ground

James,

the

pur

Wether

On

side while the trench is being excavated. to a level bottom for the reception of the concrete foundation shewn in Goss

which repre Section ( Drawing h: 10 ) -sents the deepest water along the

work.

ho

As the old footings sorry

dantly prove

where abune.

the incompressibility of

the