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HONGKONG, 20th July, 1902.

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In accordance with the terms of our instructions, we

have inspected all the bridges and the more important cul-

verts,-which are numbered consecutively with the ridges,-

constructed, or in course of construction, on the Kowloon-

Canton Railway, British Section. Our inspection extended

over the 19th, 22nd and 23rd instant, the Chief Resident

Engineer, Mr. G. W. Eves, accompanying us throughout the

course of it.

Up to and including No.33, the abutments and piers

of the bridges are generally constructed with granite ash-

lar facework, backed up with cement or line concrete and

resting on cement, concrete foundations. In a fex exceptional

cases, the foundations are of line concrete. There

the bridges are arched, the arches are gonerally of granite

ashlar throughout, but, in a few cases, they are merely

faced with granite ashlar, the remainder being of cement

concrete or brickwork. The only foundations of a special

nature are those of No.25, which consist of wells, and Nos. 15.

and 33: which are piled with China fir piles, 9 to 10 feet in

length.

Beyond No.33, the bridges are all built of brick on

concrete foundations. Three of them, (Nos. 35, 37 # 47)

have piled foundations; China fir piles, 9 to 11 feet in

length, having been used. Where the bridges are arched,

the arches are of brickwork.

So far as we were able to see, the materials and

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary.

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