5, 1907. THE PROTECTIVE WORKS OF THE ASSOUAN DAM. distance downstream, at which the water had lost the facing the set No. 16 sluices, and immediately this greater part of its scouring and eroding violence. BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. section was finished, the river was diverted from the One of the… … mortar. At these points, however, where the talus Excavating 390,000 Cubic Yards of loose Rock, and Gravel from the River Bed, Preparatory to was more than 10 feet in thickness, the proportion of Building the Masonry Apron. cement mortar was made 6 to 1. Note in foreground huge masses of rock torn…
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