This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...of the last seven years that the back waters issuing from the port are amply sufficient, with a little constant attention to their operations, to keep the entrance clear of any obstruction from beach or sand. It has been already said that, at the commencement of that time, (1836, ) there was a If to this testimony of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...of the last seven years that the back waters issuing from the port are amply sufficient, with a little constant attention to their operations, to keep the entrance clear of any obstruction from beach or sand. It has been already said that, at the commencement of that time, (1836, ) there was a If to this testimony of his exertions for securing a good harhour to his native place, we add his unremitting efforts in the cause of the school charities, hy which many ore now receiving good and useful learnin" in the foundation grammar school of Rye, who would otherwise have remained in comparative ignorance we may truly say that his name deserves not to be forgotten where the good he has done is so substantially manifest. The benefits are reaped by others, whilst he sacrificed a handsome competence in securing them. an immense sand-bar, which is now, in 842, entirely gone. During the last seven years, the jutties on the western side have been torn up and discontinued. An immense quantity of beach must, we know, with every strong south-west wind, have been driven into the mouth of the harbour; yet it no longer settles there, and the entrance is now better than it has been known for the last forty years. Finally, if the recommendations of the engineers who have surveyed the harbour were to be followed up, by taking off some of the points from the sides to straiten the channels, there is evidence, from what is observable at places where the flood and ebb tides act on the same parts, and where there is always from five to eight feet water, strong enough to demonstrate that not less than four or five feet water might be reasonably expected to be obtained and maintained all the distance from Scots Float Sluice to the pier-head, or even out to the sea at dead low wat...
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Add this copy of Quarterly Papers on Engineering, Vol. II (2), 1844 to cart. $166.00, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1844 by John Weale.
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Good. Published 1844, quarto, half leather, cloth boards, good copy with neat recent cloth covering to spine, contents very good, light institutional marks, discard from Swarthmore College library. Various paginations, probably 300-400 pages total with many engraved plates, some double page, etc. Contents are On Havens of Safety (Vetch), Report on Holyhead and Port Dynllaen harbours (Rennie), On the Friction of Steam Engines (Pole), Engineering of Holland (Clarke), On the consumption of fuel in the locomotive engines of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Woods), and Macneiill's Report on the Atmospheric Railway. There are also further articles on plans for a harbour with Granton Pier, construction of an iron roof on the new houses of Parliament, Slate quarries, Wolf's patent steam engine, Sargent's lectures on American steam navigation, and the erection of the cast iron bridge across the Nevka at St. Petersburg Russia. All have plates, some quite detailed.
Add this copy of Quarterly Papers on Architecture Four Volumes to cart. $307.00, very good condition, Sold by Old New York Book Shop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1845 by (George Woodfall & Son).
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Very good. Four volumes quarto profusely illustrated with full colar and black and white plates. Rebacked in cloth retaining the original brown boards which are wearing along the edges. New endpapers. 225 full plates many in color thereby lacking a few plates. Volume 2 lacking the title page a, d volumes 2 & 4 lacking the frontispiece. Foxed A breaker.
