The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 153
nning particularly strong. I admit that, in wet docks, where the entrances, or jaws outside the dockgates, are generally so wide, the evil is not so severely felt; hut I rememberwhen the West India Docks, Ulackwall end, were first made, the danger forloaded ships was so great, that it was found… … Scale to Figs. 15 and 16, 1 Inch to 100 Feet. Mr. Knight says:—With reference to the general question, F think itmay be presumed, that the entrances to the public dock establishments havebeen constructed in a manner deemed most eligible (having reference to theset of the tide), for the purpose of…
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