CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 81

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the

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t

due to

any

such insufficient form

of protection for along Section A, where

no rubble exists the same hard and uncorroded surface underlies the

An additional then deposit of silt. An

and

interesting piece of evidence of

the filiress of this ground for foun -

I think be gathered

dations

may from the boulders

Shingle

of

the similar

le and clay beach along Bel- cher's Bay at the western extremilyy

the Prays; these

of

ing

above the

AAL

seen

project-

ground.

ound at

d at low tide

scour around.

without the signs of them usual in the softer sands 4- and travelling shingles of other shores in the shape of the hollows and pools which the waves scoop around them.

Though

Though a less likely contingency it.

was not found wither at the four places where the wall

was pulled down

for inspection that the lower had been pushed out by back pressure noticeable dif

LUTLA

there

any very

stone and another

ference between one in the inward pitch of

the

footings.

As the undisturbed level of the lower!

original wall attests the its foundations beneath

courses of integrity of

the

the me

as well as

any

other feature.

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کمر

are here:

photographs hos

8, 9 and 10 given of the places left standing

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after the lyphoon intermediates to those which were pulled down for examina tion, special attention being called to the ugly and irregular coping masonry which must not be taken

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