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to the westward by furnishing a line of less resistance, and withdrawing 

 the water from the former distant channel. Moreover, it cut a second 

 channel quite as deep as the first on the opposite side of the fleet, thus 

 creating two channels as good or better than before, instead of the one for- 

 merly existing on the site of the fleet. 





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There could not be found an instance more fully confirmatory of the 

 soundness of the principles I have laid down and proposed to use, than 

 this accidental practical experience, and yet the amount of the protection 

 aff'orded by the "stone fleet" was much less than that I have provided, 



