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The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)

London : [William Laxton] · leaf 307

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of the stones being lifted out of theirplaces by the waves; but they were generally deposited near theiroriginal sites, so that the necessary repairs could be made at atrifling cost. Tlie sections (figs. .3, 4, and .5) represent sea defenses betweenNewhaven and Granton, the foundations of which… … Fig. 5. Scale to Figs. 3, 4, and 5, Ifj to the Foot. Fig. 3, represents the cross section of a much older sea walland bulwark, on the turnpike road between Newhaven and Trinity.As this wall was not breached at any point by the storm of the6th of December, the author is not able to give its…

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