38 IMPROVED FISHERY HARBOUR ACCOMMODATION 



Two merchant commanders. 



Four other gentlemen, if possible acquainted with the 

 usages and requirements of fishermen. 



N.B. One of the engineers, if possible, to be practically 

 a seaman. 



Business to be legally transacted by half the number. The 

 applications to be forwarded to the Houses of Parliament. 



Evidence as to the desirability of any harbour work to 

 be taken in'the locality before any two justices of the peace. 



Attendance of witnesses in London not to be compulsory. 



No Act of Parliament to be necessary for an estimate 

 under 10,000. 



N.B. Expenses of obtaining Acts of Parliament are too 

 great for small fishing ports. 



LIMENOMETRY, OR THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF 

 THE SCIENCE OF HARBOUR DESIGN AND CON- 

 STRUCTION. 



THE designing and construction of artificial harbours 

 is confessedly the most difficult branch of the profession 

 of the civil engineer, for in this work he is brought 

 into conflict with those two powerful elements, wind and 

 water, which combine together to assault, and not in a few 

 instances to overthrow in a few hours the results of 

 the labours, it may be, of years, the outcome of much 

 anxious thought and ingenious design. 



The designing and building of harbours may be looked 

 on as a special branch or art of the civil engineering pro- 

 fession ; in the present essay, therefore, it is the desire of 

 the writer to endeavour to collect together as a science, 

 in conformity with part of the subject proposed by the 

 Committee, for this essay, " The general principles on which 



