The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 49
oulders. In ports, harbours, estuaries, and road-steads, rock is, however, seldom met with, except in detachedmasses, the ground being usually an accumulation of alluvial de-posit, which is well adapted for the reception of such foundations,and is also that in which they are generally most… … buoy shackled at the other end (fie;. 3). This sinker, which is ablock of stone or iron, is either laid upon the surface of theground, or Is placed in an excavation prepared for its reception. Fig. 3. UMEHOUSE The fixed, or permanent moorings most commonly used are oftwo kinds; the span-chain…
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