The Practice of Embanking Lands from the Sea: Treated as a Means of Profitable Employment of Capital, with Examples and Particulars of Actual Embankments (1852)
The Practice of Embanking Lands from the Sea: Treated as a Means of Profitable Employment of Capital, with Examples and Particulars of Actual Embankments (1852)
Excerpt from The Practice of Embanking Lands From the Sea: Treated as a Means of Profitable Employment of Capital; With Examples and Particulars of Actual Embankments, and Also Practical Remarks on the Repair of Old Sea-Walls These enterprises, however, are not unattended wi hazard, nor unaccompanied with dificulties and dl gers. They are expensive, and therefore failing disastrous; but when conducted with prudence, a! Attended with success, they may be eminently w ficial to the community and to the adventurers. A: hints, ...
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Excerpt from The Practice of Embanking Lands From the Sea: Treated as a Means of Profitable Employment of Capital; With Examples and Particulars of Actual Embankments, and Also Practical Remarks on the Repair of Old Sea-Walls These enterprises, however, are not unattended wi hazard, nor unaccompanied with dificulties and dl gers. They are expensive, and therefore failing disastrous; but when conducted with prudence, a! Attended with success, they may be eminently w ficial to the community and to the adventurers. A: hints, therefore, tending to prevent failure and to pr mote success must be valuable; and if apology itd for offering such hints, it may be found in the fact, th from my profession as a Land Agent, having been? 1 many years connected much with sea-walling, batik building and repairing, I have been induced to vemfi some observations on the subject, in the hope oftbt being useful to those who are willing to speculate in 801 undertakings - to country gentlemen whose (mm already protected by sea-banks, or who may be desire of enlarging and improving their property in this we -and even to Engineers, who may be required to M on the best means of effecting the intended object. No one who is cognizant of the vast engineer-h works effected in the present day, can be insensible> the great scientific attainments and the practical powe of the present race of Engineers. Sea bsnking, or se walling, a small portion of t. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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