Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 405
393 THE SOONKESALA CANAL. Fig. 8. L-^«^> FACE WALL, COMPLETED 1 368. during an extraordinary flood in August, that the front wall acts as a face-wall to the mass of rubble behind. This is 1870, which rose over the wall and, prob- found a very efficient kind of wall; but ably, cut down the ordinary… … --■;-•''- :> MASONRY REVETMENT, COMPLETED 1865. from top to bottom, between two slopes nally constructed — as shown by the dot- of hand-packed rubble. The objection ted lines — without the foreshore of pud- to this proved to be that the vertical dle, and with merely a vertical central core, being…
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