{In Elbow dam Lower Gough—6,624 cribs Lower Gough(cribB.) 500 2,743, In double Cribwork Limit Beacon (parallel.) 2260 4820 47011 double Crib-
Total 1,353,898 1,169,202 2, 523,100
The total quantity of dredged matter pumped, 1,543,071 cub. yds., was distributed amongst the dredgers as follows By the " Cycloop" at Upper Gough Island 1,494,162 cub. yds.
By the "Canton" at Lower Gough Island 49,809.
The rest of the dredged matter, i.e. 979,129 cub. yds. was damped in mass on and between the training works (as stated in the monthly reports). Considering the sticky sandy nature of the soil and the occasional hard knocks of the buckets against invisible obstacles—telegraph cables amongst them—submerged in the river bottom the above figures show the great strength of the dredging machinery.
The depth of water in the dredged route was, at the end of Jane, nowhere less than twelve fect at low water aver a width of more than 400 feet except at Upper Gough Islnd to the right of the Junk Channel Bank where the 12-feet Channel in the narrowest place was only 330 feet wide, with, The figures having an asterisk (parallel.
6,459 10,939 are ebb currents, the others flood In training Work currents.
Upper Gough. 47,582 115,200
Joly 1, 1908, was a spring tide; Incrib work Phea-Juve 26, 1908, " neap tide; April 10, sant point... measuring ities was on each The place of nerib mock Dyke 630 630
3,623 occasion in both channels nearly opposite middle Gough Station.
Preparative Works—Clay walls have been built st contractors' expense around the spaces of low land at the lower end of Gough Island to be filled ith dredged matter pomped up by the "Canton." The old opium bulk "Wellington" was purchased by the contractors and moored on the Ship Channel side of upper Gough Island to be used as as quarters by the men, and as a store-bulk.
3,753
2,114
Total...61,994 199,882 Laag work: (Layers of Bruchwood above low water fixed by fences.) yds. oq. yds.
14,677 19,682
6,420
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