The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 42
y througli tlie whole thickness of thel>ier; and when a sxifticient nunibcr had been laid to bring tiie work up tothe height of low water spring tides, tlie whole heeadth was levelled, and allthe mie<iual projections chipped off, in order to prepare a bed for the firsco\u-se of dressed… … in front, with dry stone hearting of squared scapple dressed rubble inside,and in this way was carried up to the full height required. When the writer visited this work, in the year 1818, it had been advanceda consideraole distance into the sea ; and although parts of it had been ex-jiosed to some…
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