The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 42
ates, that the bottom under the founda-tion is nothing better than loose saud and gravel, and that tlie front ashlarcommences at about one foot under low water mark, and is carried up to thetop of the iiier, which the drawing shows to be about thirty-three feet iuheight from the bottom to the top.… … ^^?Si§>^:>Sj$§5;?i5Sss:S5^^~ The author next proceeds to describe an economical method ofbuilding the foundations of a pier as practised by Mr. Telford at In-verness, to avoid the expence of erecting a coffer dam. This is welldeserving of notice on account of its simplicity, particularly the…
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