Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 496
exercise a was a valuable piece of experience in en- pushing force or pressure from behind, gineering. He would like to ask the and such a revetment wall supported as author what was the character of the shown he should scarcely expect to sand on which that wall stood. If it stand. were pure sand,… … bank on rock. Fig. 17. BANK ON RIVER SAND.
Engineering
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