Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 241, Issue 1456William Blackwood, 1937 |
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Page 232
... rock close below the surface of the water during the dry season , so that there would be no difficulty about the founda- tions for the tall masonry piers destined to carry the steel girders spanning the gorge . Alas for human frailty ...
... rock close below the surface of the water during the dry season , so that there would be no difficulty about the founda- tions for the tall masonry piers destined to carry the steel girders spanning the gorge . Alas for human frailty ...
Page 240
... rock showing through it . I ex- amined such of the rock as could be seen with much interest ; for it would be our task to smash this rock away and lower the caisson step by step until it rested on a level bed of rock . I had armed ...
... rock showing through it . I ex- amined such of the rock as could be seen with much interest ; for it would be our task to smash this rock away and lower the caisson step by step until it rested on a level bed of rock . I had armed ...
Page 242
... rock , while I probed with growing anxiety for the appearance of a level bed at a reasonable depth . Six weeks ! Soon it would be May , and still the uneven rock persisted . We seemed to be scratching down the face of an underwater ...
... rock , while I probed with growing anxiety for the appearance of a level bed at a reasonable depth . Six weeks ! Soon it would be May , and still the uneven rock persisted . We seemed to be scratching down the face of an underwater ...
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