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badway. When the embankment shall have

become sufficiently consolidated

it is.

d to cover

proposed to

cover the entire

surface of the Praya roadway with

a

a crust or shell of lime (4 to 1) concreté of

thickness

of

18 inches.

port of du 18/4/

the

187447.

ball

hydraulie

average

quiation of the Praya

was fully reported Colonial Office, and a

On

to the

reference to

the Reports of that period will show that the old structure, not witholand- ing that it was

inherently weak and

defective in desion and construce-

tion, would have withstood the

the most severe typhoon

Assault

of

that had ever bun recorded in China, but for the circumstanco. that the earth backing, forming the Praya Embankment, was

washed

out

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