The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 350
uldyou still conclude from your experience that the original form was essen-tially bad ? Yes; 1 consider that the sewer stands now merely from the ac-cident of the ground having become hard and mortar having become consoli-dated. Mr. Hugh Biers, an extensive builder, prefers the Finsbury sewers.For… … At 6 feet depth of digging tliis sewer will cost s. per foot lineal. For every additionalcourse in deptli add lOd. per foot lineal. kind of mortar orcement ^ Stone lime and river sand are always used.—Are 1 1 V y you satisfied that the nature of the mortar is sufficiently adhesive for…
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