| Roger North - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...always open : and, for that end, he had an easy and sure device; which was sluice-gates built cross the channel of the rill, which, during tide of flood,...clean as a marble table. All this we saw, with his salt-pans at work about it, and the petit magazines, of a marine trade, upon the wharf: and so he reaped... | |
| Roger North - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...promontory of the shore turning in by the north ; and, at low water, the vessels lay dry upon the rock. This had been built of square stone with and without cement...clean as a marble table. All this we saw, with his saltpans at work about it, and the petit magazines of a marine trade upon the wharf : and so he reaped... | |
| Roger North, Augustus Jessopp - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...be found strong enough to hold against the lifting and sucking of the water. At length, Sir Ralph, at an immense cost, bound every joint of the stone,...clean as a marble table. All this we saw, with his saltpans at work about it, and the petit magazines of a marine trade upon the wharf : and so he reaped... | |
| RICHARD WELFORD - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...easy and sure Device; which was Sluice-gates built cross the Channel of the Rill, which during Tide or Flood were shut, and so the Water gathered to a great...clean as a Marble Table. All this we saw, with his Salt-pans at Work about it, and the petit Magazines, of a marine Trade upon the Wharf; and so he reaped... | |
| 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...bridge crosses it, thus forming a backwater which, being released at the ebb, scoured away the sand lodged upon the rock and washed it ' as clean as a marble table.' These sluice-gates acted automatically ; they were closed by the water from the sea rushing into the... | |
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