Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 143
131 THE BANKS OF JAPANESE RIVERS. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. … as are shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3*. In such cases they are built or repaired These trestles are made of logs about during the dry season in the summer. Where a stronger current is to be re- eight inches in diameter, lashed together sisted, the whole bank is made of baskets with rough hemp ropes.…
Engineering
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.