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course to adopt some method
of providing against undue settlement of the rubble mound after the completion of the wall.
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5. As the Surveyor General states in the of the paragraph of his Report, it is obvious that the safety, not only of the Praya Wall, but of the roads
and buildings in its rear depends "absolutely the stability of
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the foundation
on which
the wall rests, i, e, of the rubble
bank. In the latter part of
the
sarne
paragraph he
mentions the case of a
reclamation, then being carned
out
out at Kennedy Town, in
comparatively great depth of
water and mud, and staise
that the settlement there in
the rubble mound during
already been
work.
construction has atrea d,
as much as 10 feet at one part of the
6. Having carefulles considered the question, it
appears to me that in the
absence of such a con.. plete and
effectual measure as the provision of the steam-roller machine,
suggested in my Report of 28th December 1888, it would be wise to adopt the following mode of procedure
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