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modifications, to which reference will be made hereafter, the project as prepared Soy the Surveyor General, and charm in delait

on the cros lections which accompanied

letter of 28 Bults.

28&ults may

be considered as

providing sufficient strength to meet all The conditions of exposure and wave-stroke To which the mall and its foundations will be cubjected-

The point to which I desire more particularly to call attention,

pad wherein it appears to me that sove exceptio

man

be Faken to the design

is

The

madeapacy of the width of very on pubble Jank, immediately outside the lowest 1 gooting.

course ĥj Ins figured

the wall. This wristta

on the detail cross section as

2. feet; it should, in my opinion, be Increased vu, at least 4 feet, as that the

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clear width grubku bank outside the toe 5f the wall should not be less than b feet from The foot of the masowry to the edge of the

With a

of 2 feet, there would be an insufficient marging safety

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width

to provide for displacement on to /phoons o exceptional waves, not minder minute from possibly cause an muderuiming of the

foot of the wall.

If the section proposed core migidly adhered to, it right anuser

every propre for a considerable perest,

but exceptinol-circumstances would

arice sooner or later as in the case of the treat Empphoon of 1874 - when the extra width would be of vastal vimportance.

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I would therefore strongly unge, as

matter of precaution, that the vero abroncs

be mcreased sin width as described above,

retaining