713 [=74] (V.2)

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"their heads, leaving the material
"to swing freely at a distance of
"25 feet or thereabouts on their
"down stream side / by which
"the piles would be protected from
"cutting immediately in their
"neighborhood / I migt get the
river to silt up and form a bank at the shot in question -
------------------------------------------ "purpose I procured some of the
"chains used in block sinking
"fastened a quantity of [ji..?]
"way above mentioned for...
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the piles heads. There were only Dig. LXXXIII
2 piles available 12 feet in length
"each with screws 7 inches in
"diameter : these were secured Size of Cut
"down into the the bed of the river
"with their upper ring well
"below the surface; to these the
material was chained. a few
nights afterwards a small flood
"came down the River, and to my
"great astonishment when I visited
the spot the morning afterwards 7 1 3
I found that on each side of the
piles sand equal in length
to 300 feet on a breadth of 50
had deposited itself in the form
of a bank nearly concealing
from sight the whole of the jungle
which had bee attached to the
pile heads.. seeing this "mr. Login
goes on to say" immediately had
a number of the screw files
made and instead of fix=
=ing the jungle by long de=
=tached chains. I have put
the piles in the following
position, passing the chain
through the rings at at their
heads, and securing the jungle
by

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