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Scientific Intelligence. 



[No. 10, NEW SERIES, 



A sandy Beach as above specified being permanently secured, 

 enables the Masula boats and Catamarans at all times to be berth- 

 ed and ready within their prescribed limits, which before could 

 not be done. 



Affording a smooth and clear way for taking up and down cat- 

 tle, &c. (landed or shipped) over the Bulwark. 

 Repairing and making new boats. 



Embarking and disembarking troops and their baggage. 



Merchandize too, is now no longer exposed to such great risks 

 as hitherto. No more pipes of the best wine are stove in against 

 the stones ; no more bales of superfine cloth damaged by salt 

 water ; nor need we see any of the wholesale destruction gene- 

 rally to miscellaneous property formerly occurring, for want of 

 sufficiency of Beach. 



By making room for all floatsams and jetsams which for the 

 want of more Beach used to be strewed on the high road much 

 to the inconvenience and danger of conveyances and pedestrians. 



By affording a wider ground work and protection to all the no- 

 ble Beach buildings which are occupied as Court Houses, Public 

 and Mercantile Offices, Banks, and private residences, and which 

 had previously been endangered by the encroachment of the sea on 

 a lee Coast, half the year; even the Bulwark itself had not been 

 sufficient to prevent the sea washing over the Beach road, and find- 

 ing its way into the lower apartments of houses in its vicinity 

 during gales of wind. Another fact may be here mentioned, name- 

 ly, at a later period off the Marine Villa, where the sea at 

 one time had encroached so much as almost to undermine the 

 Governor's Bungalow there , and to save which, the Master 

 Attendant's Department was urgently called upon on the 

 19th December 1847 to secure a number of laden Masula 

 boats to seaward to serve as a temporary barrier. Itself proves 

 how incalculably serviceable the system of Groynes is to the 

 margin of a coast which is so little above the level of the sea, 

 (only I believe 6 feet at some places) and in a military point of 

 view the formation of a new Beach outside the Fort, answers as a 

 subsidiary means of strengthening the Ramparts of Fort Saint 

 George. If not out of place, I would here refer to the utility of 



