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is any pofTibility of fettling the price with accuracy, or 

 that there be no hazard in performing the work in 

 a flovenly manner, without being eafily detected. It 

 requires a long and intimate acquaintance with country 

 works, to be able accurately to inveftigate the various 

 prices and rates of tafk-work, which muft in a great 

 meafure depend upon the rates of common day-labour, 

 being the beft guide to go by. 



So much for the weighty works of the banks of the 

 river, which required to be managed, as above ftated, 

 in a mofl permanent manner. Thofe parts, which 

 were mofl likely to fuffer, were always firft attended 

 to. 



But as to fuch parts as were not fuffering materially, 

 flighter materials were found fufficient to fecure them. 

 Spruce and Scotch firs, from fix to twelve feet high, 

 were found to anfwer this purpofe extremely well. 

 Thefe were cut down with their entire branches, and 

 packed together, as clofe as they could be placed, in the 

 parts of the banks difpofed to yield only (lightly, or 

 \vhere ftrand-like appearances were about to take 

 place. In fuch cafes there is nothing more neceflary, 

 than to arreft the fands and other materials, which 

 may be brought down the river by floods. 



The ftrand or naked parts being judicioufly covered 

 with brufli-wood of any fort (full of foliage, for the 

 clofer the better), and fecurely confined, a new furface 

 is foon created. A few floods are fufficient to depofit 



plenty 



