CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4] — Page 191

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the night of the 22nd of may san themscines by the most cursory inspection of those banks at present as to the reai cause of the shoal at the mouth of the

Kuliah.

o'n one placi aione, behind the dust i'm at the turn of Farain Foxx .

slist over twenty feet high, has been

eroded for a distance back

distance back of forty.

but, thus causing

earth to be carrica

a sube or buite of

away

from this

a

single shot equal to the contents of the

shoal compiained of.

so laten

away

at its foot as to cauce several

Landslips all of

which were washed

down into the sea.

The entire stream from about

the 800 foot contour down to the soldiers.

of

gymnasien was found after the night

the sand

of Noay to have become widened from bank to bank by about one half its original width and in _ some places by as many its original width, conclusively

as three times

proving that it had eaten

banks along its entire sour...

away

its

little lower down the Stream;

On the same night, the entire

ciest forming the west boundary of

William's Livery Stable premices was

There is no doubt that some of

the scopes of the new road were much

furrowed and washed

by

the

Jes

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