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Van Nostrand's engineering magazine (1879)

[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 160

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nsiderable face of the water ; for that profile which depth, its destruction is all but certain. Where the materials are costly, but ad- may be best at one time of the tide can- mit of being easily dressed, I am dis- not be equally suitable at another. Works for Protecting Land in Open posed to… … kind are required. Figs. 9 and 10 are a wall by' a quadrant of a circle of sufficient plan and section of a protection which radius, may be found answerable. Such a form will prevent to a considerable ex- was adopted on a line of shore composed tent the danger of reaction, by causing of shingle.…

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