The Commercial Power of Great Britain: Exhibiting a Complete View of the Public Works Under the Several Heads of Streets, Roads, Canals, Aqueduct, Bridges, Coasts, and Maritime Ports, Volume 2C. Knight, 1825 - 10 pagina's |
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The Commercial Power of Great Britain: Exhibiting a Complete View ..., Volume 2 Charles baron Dupin Volledige weergave - 1825 |
The Commercial Power of Great Britain: Exhibiting a Complete View ..., Volume 2 Charles baron Dupin Volledige weergave - 1825 |
The Commercial Power of Great Britain: Exhibiting a Complete View ..., Volume 2 Charles baron Dupin Volledige weergave - 1825 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 169 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.
Pagina 48 - During the busy season, this establishment employs about 2(JCO workmen. It can admit, at the same time, 204 vessels in the import, and 195 in the export dock, forming a total of 120,000 tons. During the first 15 years, 72GO vessels entered them.
Pagina 202 - April 24, 1793, of a committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Pagina 48 - ... three-quarters of a mile long, cutting off the great bend of the river, connecting Limehouse Reach with Blackwall Reach, and forming the northern boundary of the Isle of Dogs. The two docks, with their warehouses, are enclosed by a lofty wall five feet in thickness, and have held at one time 148,563 casks of sugar, 70,875 barrels and 433,648 bags of coffee, 35,158 pipes of rum and Madeira, 14,021 logs of mahogany, and 21,350 tons of logwood. Though they retain their old name, they belong to the...
Pagina 37 - ... construction of floating docks in the port of London was resolved on. The first constructed, and those nearest the trading part of the metropolis, are called the London docks. They are just below the site of the Tower, and on the left bank of the Thames ; were begun in 1800, and completed in 1805. The dock, properly so called, is 420 yards in length, 276 yards in breadth, and 29 feet in depth; its superficies is equal to 25 acres ; that of the basin communicating with it is above 24 acres ; and,...
Pagina 48 - M acres, is destined for those vessels returning to the West Indies, which deposit their cargoes in the warehouses of this artificial port. The second, the superficies of which is about 25 acres, receives the vessels laid up in ordinary, or taking the outward-bound cargoes. These docks, with their basins, and the locks which connect them with the river, present an area of 68 acres of ground, excavated by human hands, for the reception and moorage of vessels. The total superficies, including that...
Pagina 48 - At the highest tides, the depth of water in (he two docks is 24 feet ; they are formed parallel to each other; their common length is about 890 yards. The largest, which has a superficies of above 30 acres, is destined for those vessels returning to the West Indies, which deposit their cargoes in the warehouses of this artificial port. The second, the superficies of which is about 25 acres, receives the vessels laid up in ordinary, or taking the outward-bound cargoes.
Pagina 194 - Alastair, his Successor and Representative, in the year of our Lord 1812. The heads of the seven murderers were presented at the feet of the Noble Chief in Glengarry Castle, after having been washed in this Spring, and ever since that event, which took...
Pagina 41 - ... vaults, into which the casks are conveyed by inclined planes. These buildings occupy a superficies of 120,000 square yards. The cellars are appropriated to wines and brandies, and railways, or rather tramways, running in all directions, facilitate labor. The London docks have their several parts perfectly adapted to each other, and are of the most admirable construction. The gates, like all those whose size much exceeds 20 feet, instead of being straight, are curved on the side on which the water...
Pagina 15 - The administration of a French bureau, with all its inaccessibilities, would be startled at the view of this hall.