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imbankment.

b k

The streets abutting

the Praga will be paised where

to

necessary increased, height of the latter, three inch layers pammed hard of the ordinary ped. loam used -erally for such works in the town,

corresponds with the

the

upper

Aca

ден

acadam

to inches being of and fine gravel, well watered and

polled with the two tow poller used;

in the struts here..

If the wall and embankment be re- - paired in accordance with the face

details there is no doubt what -going details

-Joe ver

proof

that they will be quite pr against ordinary typhoons, but it is to be feared that a pecurr

such

would

L

storm as that of 187/t still do considerable havoc.

to

to the

masonry

point of attack

hous

not from

A

меня

as

hitherto, but we

-

directly from the pont in those por-

of the wall sspecially along Praya Best where there is person

to

year

that

many of

the slove

have been cut with insufficient beds,

A de

defect which, concentrating the whole pressures of

the wall

their

edges only is liable to "jumps theme

out under

eat shocks

or

tremors

que at

leaving square

the

holes in the faces

wall as instanced

of the lagenple

1.

But a

Pho.

recurrent)

of the disasters of 1871 is not, humanly speaking probable in this

Century and

there is

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other

alternative to offer but the construe. tion of

wall at a cost beyond

a

the