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Updated: May 28, 2025
Above the hot wharves rose the slope of close stone riprapping, fence against Father Messasebe, who now and then, in spirit of sport or of forgetfulness, reached out for his immemorial tribute of the soil. The sun was reflected from this wall down on the depot building and the wharf floor beyond.
They rode to where the forces assembled by Lance were throwing up embankments and riprapping. There was hurried running to and fro, a violent dragging about of willows, and a good deal of shouting. Dunning, with some excitement, watched McCloud's face to note the effect of the activity on him, but McCloud's expression, naturally reserved, reflected nothing of his views on the subject.
Dunning waved his hand at the lively scene. "They've been at it all night. How many would you take away, sir?" "You might take them all away, as far as the river is concerned," said McCloud after a moment. "What? Hell! All?" "They are not doing anything, are they, but running around in a circle? And those fellows over there might as well be making mud pies as riprapping at that point.
The riprapping was merely a skin on each face with more or less loose spauls mixed with the earth. The dam was seventy-two feet above water, two to one inside slope, one and a half to one outside slope and twenty feet wide on top. The rock throughout was about one foot below the surface.
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