Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States (1883)
Vose, George L. (George Leonard), 1831-1910 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 346
t this point is 2200 feet wide at highwater, and has a rock bed overlaid by about 15 feet of sand on the FOUNDATIONS. 321 western shore, and by nearly 100 feet on the eastern side, therock sloping from west to cast, the sand being near]) level. Thescour of this sand takes place to depths so great… … < -- • - ~ v. - ^ --F^? ■ • -?- -- - V C* -•: > Ix--*->~ -• -J,ir4p$< ■Fig. 138. height of the eastern pier, when completed, ten feet above lowwater mark, will be 97 feet, and that of the other 69 feet abovethe rock. About 78 feet in depth of sand will be encountered insinking the one,…
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