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any further delay. The scheme has
now
been under discussion over
Aware
years and Her Majesty's Government will be fully-
what a pressing need this junction of the comparatively thinly populated Eastern half of the town with the congested western half-
has become. 15. Two
years ago
Admiral Sir William
Dowell entirely agreed to the scheme of carrying the proposed Praya roadway
over a
succession
would in no
over head arches.
of along that portion where it was to pass in front of the Naval Yard. By
By this expedient it was admitted by the Naval Authorities that Admiralty interests,
way be prejudiced, and that the long standing naval objection to the interposition of a public road between the Naval Yard and the sea had at last been most completely and most efficiently met, though at a
greatly
increased
increased cost.
16. The sole question therefore decided is what share
of
the
to be
no70
expense
of embankment my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty would be disposed, to defray. The naval foreshore at this point is rapidly silting up owing to the jagged and broken configuration of the coast. line which acts like a silt-trap. The numerous Naval chambers, salient angles, projections, and breaks all tend to promote the deposit of silt, and this in so marked
manner that the naval Yard would be ultimately left inland, "but for the works of dredging and re-
A
4ro
clamation which have to be resorted to from time to time. The erection of ashlar masonry sea-wall in deep water laid on
easy flowing curves, in substitution of the present broken
scouring action in the ebb and flow of the tidal currents along the shore, and
coast line would, induce a
would
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any further delay. The scheme has
now
bem under discussion over
Aware
years and Her Majesty's Government will be fully-
what a pressing need this junction of the comparatively thinly populatids Eastern half of the town with the congested western half-
has become. 15. Two
years ago
Adineral Sir William
Dowell entirely agreed to the scheme of carrying the proposed Praya roadway
over a
sucussion
would in no
over head arches.
of along that portion where it was to pass in front of the raval Yard. By
By this expedient it was admitted by the Maval Authorities that Admirally interests,
way be wajudiced, and that the long danding raval objection to the interposition of a public road between the Naval Yard and the sex had at lash been most completely and most afficiently met, though at a
greatly
increased
increased cost.
16. The sole question therefore decided is what share
of
the
to be
no70
expense
of embantement my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty would be disposed, to defray. The haval foreshore at this point is rapidly silting up owing to the jugoi and broken configuration of the coast. live which acts like a sith-trap. The numerous Naval cambers, salient an- - gles, projections, and breaks all tend to promote the deposit of silt, and this in so marked
manner that the haval Yard would be ultimately left inland, "but for the works of dredging and re-
A
4ro
clamation which have to be resorted to from time to time. The erection of ashlar masonry sea-wall in diep water laid on
easy flowing curves, in substitution of the present broken
scouring action in the ebb and flow of the tidal currents along the shore, and
coast line would, induce a
would
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