 | Robert Munro - 1882 - 382 Seiten
...and yielding sediment due to decomposed vegetable matter, it is manifest that any heavy substances, as stones and earth, would be totally inadmissible...the best and cheapest material that could be used. To construct in 10 or 12 feet of water, virtually floating over an unfathomable quagmire, a solid compact... | |
 | 1886 - 574 Seiten
...and yielding sediment due to decomposed vegetable matter, it is manifest that any heavy substances, as stones and earth, would be totally inadmissible...the best and cheapest material that could be used. To construct in 10 or 12 feet of water, virtually floating over an unfathomable quagmire, a solid compact... | |
 | 1886 - 804 Seiten
...and yielding sediment due to decomposed vegetable matter, it is manifest that any heavy substances, as stones and earth, would be totally inadmissible...the best and cheapest material that could be used. To construct in 10 or 12 feet of water, virtually floating over an unfathomable quagmire, a solid compact... | |
 | 1887 - 548 Seiten
...and yielding sediment due to decomposed vegetable matter, it is manifest that any heavy substances, as stones and earth, would be totally inadmissible,...the best and cheapest material that could be used. To construct in ten or twelve feet of water, virtually floating over a quagmire, a solid, compact island,... | |
 | 1887 - 896 Seiten
...and yielding sediment due to decomposed vegetable matter, it is manifest that any heavy substances, as stones and earth, would be totally inadmissible,...the best and cheapest material that could be used. To construct in ten or twelve feet of water, virtually floating over a quagmire, a solid, compact island,... | |
 | Yorkshire Geological Society - 1891 - 586 Seiten
...and yielding sediment due to decomposed vegetable matter, it is manifest that any heavy substance, as stones and earth, would be totally inadmissible...the best and cheapest material that could be used. To construct in ten or twelve feet of water, floating over a quagmire, a solid compact island, with... | |
 | Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society - 1891 - 586 Seiten
...and yielding sediment due to decomposed vegetable matter, it is manifest that any heavy substance, as stones and earth, would be totally inadmissible...the best and cheapest material that could be used. To construct in ten or twelve feet of water, floating over a quagmire, a solid compact island, with... | |
 | Robert Munro - 1899 - 568 Seiten
...any heavy substances, such as stones or earth, would be inadmissible, owing to their weight, so that logs of wood, provided there was an abundant supply...best and cheapest material that could be used. The plan adopted seems to have been to make first a floating raft of stems of trees, brushwood, bracken,... | |
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... as stones and earth, would be totally inadmissible owing to their weight, so that solid logs of wood, provided there was an abundant supply at hand, would be the best and cheapest material that could be used. To construct in... 