The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 37
became choked bythe movement of the ground; the further causes of their failure are com-mented upon in detail, as well as the benefit derived from the experiencewhich they afforded, in pointing out the proper mode of treatment to bepursued in future. The mode of proceeding which was at last… … It consisted, first, in removing a considerable portion of the drift, fromthe area occupied by the cross section of the cutting, before the marl at itsbottom was touched; and, secondly, in driving headings from the valley intothe hill, and connecting them by shafts sunk to meet them, from the…
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