Transcriber's Note: The table of contents has been added. Blank pages
have been deleted. Illustrations may have been moved. Discovered
publisher's punctuation errors have been corrected. Some wide tables
have been re-formatted to narrower equivalents with some words replaced
with commonly known abbreviations and possibly a key. Some ditto marks
have been replaced with the words represented. In addition, the
following changes or corrections were made:
p. 501: but the tampers had had[del 2nd had] previous experience
p. 508: shown on Plates VI to IX[VI, VII, VIII, IX[to accomodate links]]
p. 516: at this place there is a considererable[considerable] area
p. 538: based on the following rates and and[del 2nd and] percentages
p. 579: by crossing the river, build-the[building the] reservoir
p. 550: [For Table 14: added "Total materials cost"]
p. 566: respectively (Fig. 5)[(Fig. 4)], together with lack of
p. 584: [Table 17 renamed to Table 18 to avoid duplication.]
p. 584: Table 17[18], compiled by the writer, shows how very extreme
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