EN712 [=73] (V.2)
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712
[note in left margin:
Part III
Chap. 1
previous part sent to
printer May 22/60.]
situated in the centre of the bed
of the river; at the highest point
D Mr. Login established the end
of one of the permanent embank-
-ments, similar to that at the
Puttri and in shape and di-
-mension as follows:
[drafted diagram of embankment follows, text reads:
Diag. LXXXIII
Plan
Section
25'
50']
the triangular superstructure
being made of [Kurries?] or rafters
15 feet in length, of which species
of material the piling and ne-
-cessary protection were also
made. The exposed or salient
end X was left as open frame
work for the water to break upon,
and the rest was filled with vitri-
-fied brick and masses of over
burnt material brought from
the brick fields. By the above
arrangement the current was
forced round the head of the
spur D and by meeting an
impediment of the same sort
at B, was urged into the head
of the cuts which had been wi-
-dened out to receive it. Mr.
Login in describing his dissap-
-pointment in the failure of a
spur which was thrown out
in the early part of the rains
of 1853 at the point X, observes
that "it struck me that were
I to use screw piles and to tie
branches of trees and jungle to
their
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