That the Dutch engineers, after centuries of experience, are still at loggerheads on matters of practice as well as theory is evident from the divergent views prevailing among them as to the advantage of breaking the water by means of piling. On some of the greyness at Scheveningen the piles did not obtrude themselves above the water line. Further along the coast, where other engineers have had their: way, the greyness are thickly fringed with them to a height of six feet above the water line. Sometimes - there will +b a single row of them' running straight down the middle of. the greyness, sometimes two rows one on each side, and sometimes as many as. four rows. There can be no question that this sort of thing tends greatly to destroy the beauty of the seascape and that if they can be safely dispensed with they should not be erected on the plage of a fashionable watering place. The hideousness of them is sufficiently evident to everyone who has ever visited Dombourg, a small resort on the western coast of Walcheron, just rising into favour with the world of fashion. In front of the best hotels and for miles.on cither hand these black comb-like projections jut out into the sea, and even at the base of the cliff there are rows upon rows of them sticking out of a revetment of basalt. The effect is ugly and depressing in the extreme. Anything more calculated to obscure the natural beauty of a foreshore. like that of - Palling or
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