CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7] — Page 442

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straw, r

"the floor round the hole formed in near to where the piece of ... were all deposited

"wall had fallen, "in regular circles, showing clearly by "these marks the white ... like tendency, of the water in passing "downward through the large openings "between the boulders (upon which the house is built) into the drain on the "lower side of the house (on lot 503).

"water, in removing some of the loose earth from between the boulders, I doubt caused the foundations at or near that point to settle a little more than they had previously done.

"I proceeded to make a more detailed examination of the drain in question. It has two holes in the upper portion of the drain (in the presence of Overseer ...). Air was ... at the bottom of the elbow immediately below the portion of the drain said to have burst during the storm of the 22nd ult.

Upon taking up the covering stone, some ... was thrown into the drain, and a large mass of night soil was discovered lying in the bottom of the drain immediately below the hole said to have been made in the drain during the storm. The night soil appeared to have been recently deposited in the drain, as it ...

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437 straw, r "the floor round the hole formed in near to where the piece of ... were all deposited "wall had fallen, "in regular circles, showing clearly by "these marks the white ... like tendency, of the water in passing "downward through the large openings "between the boulders (upon which the house is built) into the drain on the "lower side of the house (on lot 503). "water, in removing some of the loose earth from between the boulders, I doubt caused the foundations at or near that point to settle a little more than they had previously done. "I proceeded to make a more detailed examination of the drain in question. It has two holes in the upper portion of the drain (in the presence of Overseer ...). Air was ... at the bottom of the elbow immediately below the portion of the drain said to have burst during the storm of the 22nd ult. Upon taking up the covering stone, some ... was thrown into the drain, and a large mass of night soil was discovered lying in the bottom of the drain immediately below the hole said to have been made in the drain during the storm. The night soil appeared to have been recently deposited in the drain, as it ...
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437

straw, r

"the floor

round the hole formed in

near to where the pieci of

were all deposited

" wall had fallen, " in regular circles, showing clearly by

"these marks the whit pook like

tendency,

of

the water in passing "downware through the large openings "between the bouliers (upon which the : house is built) into the drain on the

" lover sive of the house (on hot 503).

water, in res

removing

some

I've

the loose 个

"earth from between the boulders, I

I have

AA

Fat or near,

doubt caused the founications

· little more

that point to settle a

than they hat

I previously done, x

J

X X

"

proseeded to make a

page

"more detailed examination

off

the

"drain in question. It has two hoses

in the upper portion of

opened

the

"drain ( in the presence of Overseer kattej "ore air the bottom

of

the elbow

"immeriately below the portion of the

شهر

"dram call to have burst during

storm of the 22nd ultimus. Upon

taking up the covering

light

was

the

stone some

thrown into the drain, and

a larse mass

"discovered lying

of night soil was

In the bottom of the

"drain immediately below the hole

"said to have been mare in the

The storms The

"drain during

wight soil appeared to have been

"recently deposited in the drain,

as it

mac

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