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dropping the stone from overhead i stagings, because the bulk of the material will have to come by boot from the opposite side of the harbour where it is more readily procurable

at the watere edge than on the Victorin

side

The blocke for the face of

che

outer or

seaward slope.

will be from

about 20 to 25 cubic feet, but in

the heart and in the inner half of

mound the rubble blocks will

the

Average

not

more

than

from

10

to

15 cubic fest in size. Above the lead of the seabed it is intended to make the seaward slope 1/2 to 1, and the miner slope 1 to 1,

the level

of

below

the mud the stones will

their own slope. When the moused

form their own

approached the level of low water

it is

proposed

Lo

Employ selectio blocks for the outer face, and to

Assemble

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