The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 330
ng vfas gradually lowered through the sands by excavatingthe sand from the insidi by the aid of an instrument well known towell-sinkers, called A Miser; great precaution was taken to keepthe cylinder perfectly perpendicular as it was lowered; within a fewinches of the bottom of the cylinder a cast… … Fig. ?.. 12 C 0 inder was sunk to the depth of 12 feet, ahollow cast iron piilar 13 feet high and1 foot external diameter below, was setin the centre of the cylinder, the footresting upon the disc at the bottom, asshown in fig. 2; when the pillar wasplaced in its proper position tlie snr-rrunding…
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