Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 204
SECTION OF DAM AS ORIGINALLVBUILT, SHOWING STRUCTURE. I. End of the mud-sill, eightinches square. 2. Edge of row ofspilings, or boards, driven downseveral feet into the river-bed be-side the mud-sill, and nailed to it.3. Stake driven down on the otherside of the mud-sill, and also nailedto it. 4.5.… … SECTION OF DAM AS REBUILTBY THE BOYS. The mud-sill is here shown sunkbelow the level of the bed of theriver, with the top of the spilingsleft sticking up. An eight-inchboard at the bottom, a foot boardat the top, and the old plank be-tween, now form the breast of thedam, of the original height.…
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