CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 43

39

Typhoon was the heaviest on record, the Surveyor General heborts that hone of the house Vails or verandan hiers tell or suffered material inure and he points out that this circumstance broves that the waves were not of themselves of great heightor tree. He further considers that the

بور؟

تا تا

ne is a

unior/which the conditions 'Olemand for tong kong

better class 1 River Väll and

struct coming wonder the category Man exposed Sea dence in the ordinary acceptation W that derm. - whilst however the houses excaped injury Considerable damage n'asdine to the sea wale, more particulatie Along Praya Central, where the mastury nas triached in many

places

coping

blocks lifted

places and the

At Praya East and West the damage was mainly confined to the scooping out of the roadway and the occasional displacement of the coping and some of the

courus &'asitar.

The Wale along Praya

asper

Central was damaged to a greater

extent than the other sea deterices owing to its being almostata right- Angle to the culminative direction of the byphoon, and hence the waves When at their maximum

Wexe

practically harallel to the race & the Work and Woned beat thereon with their greatest-force. Prvice be seen from drawing 2a 26 that Praças East and Westhère more oblique

to the angle chies exporure and thereiste were not so severely tried - Another arcumstance which unarútdiy contributed to the greater damage

cur