The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 138
o lay down a platform of wood as abiisis. Capt. Gauzences suggestion however having been adopted,the soil was dug out to about a yard below the substructure and filledin with sand well rammed. On this were laid two courses of Ashlarmasonry, and then a course of dressed stone, forming the surbase.… … The same plan has been successfully pursued in some of the fortifi-cations of Bayonne, where buildings had to be placed on made ground. In 1836 a sand foundation, about 2Aft. thick, was employed, withan equally satisfactory result, for the quay wall of a small harbour onthe coast of Brittany. For…
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