CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 42

Decription & exiding Works and

taken place in the level of the sea bed a matter of great importance to the marine properte vioners. —

Drawing to. 1 of the scries Sent from the Colony Shows clearing of the effects of the extent and contiguration of the Praya, and the Photographs which accompanied the Memorandum convey a good idea of the charador of the waterside premises.

Praças Wesrand Centrai

are together 3.170 lineal cards in length and Praja East 1, 830 zards. So that the total length of the Sea Wall which has to be maintained is 5,000 lineal

Chree gards, or

nearly

Statute miles.

coping of

The top edge of the Wale which

of the existing

Corresponds with the surface of

The Praya, is for a considerable

proportion of its length less than

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Typhoon of 1874

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1ft. 9 ins. above high water of Spring tides during the North East Monsoon. and the whole of it is below the sea level of the Typhoon & September 1874, when so much damage was done at Hong Kong, Iupon this recasion the sea rose & the ions above the level of high water of the highest- Spring Lides thus Submerging the Vace čina Praya roadway to a

depth of from a beer to a lect, the Sea Washing against the fronts promis of the houses facing the embarcement, And Hooding their lower floors which were Aly

a sewinches

avour the surface of the tostway Toimita standing that the fronts & these buildings were subjected to Seven hours to the directimball-

of the Seas Which Isneplover the Bop of the Praça, and that the Typhoon