The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 245
or lo one enlirely sloping.Captain Vetch recommends brick in cement for face work, ami sug>eslsblocks of brick hrmly agglolinaled into a mass by means of a cheap fluxbetween the joints ; the mass of brick blocks being subjected to the re-quisite beat by iiieaiis of flues or otherwise, b, M. M.… … proposition of the upright wall, which it is inferred the French engineersas a biidy, approve, and would adopt, if the breakwater in Cherbourg Baywere to be commenced de voio. Captain Washington, in his report on the breakwater at Cherbourgstates, that iNI, Keibell, the present engineer, is…
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