. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. (The dotted line D)—N. bj E^ to the Mull of Cantire—(the other dotted line)—NE by E 4 E, to Ciaig of Ailsi—AAA, Low-water—BB, High- water—CCC, Proposed Piei or Break\vater~DD, Glenarm Bay—EE, Road- way—FF, Harbour—GG, Line of Transverse Section —H, Town of Glenarm. Fig. 2. Transverse Section at GG, 190 feet broad at base; drawn to a scale of 55 feet to the AA, High-waler—BB, Low-water—C, Top of Quay, 18 feet wide—D, Pa- rapet at top, 01 Storm Pavement—EE, Breakwater Gl
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. (The dotted line D)—N. bj E^ to the Mull of Cantire—(the other dotted line)—NE by E 4 E, to Ciaig of Ailsi—AAA, Low-water—BB, High- water—CCC, Proposed Piei or Break\vater~DD, Glenarm Bay—EE, Road- way—FF, Harbour—GG, Line of Transverse Section —H, Town of Glenarm. Fig. 2. Transverse Section at GG, 190 feet broad at base; drawn to a scale of 55 feet to the AA, High-waler—BB, Low-water—C, Top of Quay, 18 feet wide—D, Pa- rapet at top, 01 Storm Pavement—EE, Breakwater Glacis, or Storm Pavement. The Construction.—It is proposed to run out a i-ough pier, or breakwater, from Paixe's Point to a distance of 825 feet, then with a cant of 3S0 feet in length, as laid down, drawn and described in the chart containing the proposed design and sections of the breakwater, deposited with the clerk of the peace. This work would effectually protect and cover about 20 acres of the Bay of Glenarm, and give security and shelter to trading ships of all kinds. The depth of water within the mole would be from 22 to 30 feet at high water ordinary spring tides. There is an abundance of limestone, in extremely thick beds, lying close to the proposed site of the breakwater, easily wrought, and which will afford an abundance of very heavy and large material, at a remarkably cheap rate, to construct the breakwater with. It is proposed, simply to lay down an abundance of stone blocks, and then to permit the ocean, for some time during storms, to shape down the slopes of the sea-side of the mole to the angles of inclination which the momentum of that element would assign to such materials. And for the purposes of landing and shipping of goods, it is intended to construct a timber wharf within the pier or breakwater, leaving to some future period, when the trade would afford the means, the facing up of the inside of the pier with squared masonr
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