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Scientific American, Vol. 27, No. 16 (1872) (1872)

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st or mud, and wears slowly, at tion thus formed, the framing rises through the same time being noiseless, affording firm the section of tidal and superficial action. The sloping screen formed by the timbers, RICH WATER and easy foothold for horses’ hoofs, and con- siderably diminishing the wear… … fixed upon thirty-two iron pillars or stand- York the London authorities will be soon dis- FLOATING BREAKWATER. ards, which will bear the arched roof, open gusted with it—Eps.] in the center and surmounted by two turret-shaped lanterns, These two systems are entirely different, and should not will…

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