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Show An Engineering FsuS ta liiada." " Tlie attention of the engineering world U said to be just now fixed upon tha liombny presidency in India, where is being constructed one of the greatest pieces of solid masonry tho world hat Been In modern times. A3 the present water supply of Bombay depends upon defective works, a huge dam has lieeu designed to inclose the watershed of the valley which drains into tho sea south of Bombay. Solely with the aid of native na-tive labor Engineei Glover, a Scotchman by birth, began this gigantic structure, which, it is expected, will bo completed in March next. It is 3 miles long, 118 feet iu height and J03 feet wide at the base. Tho roadway on tho top is to be 21 feet in width, and tho stone work will cost half a million sterling. Tho lake of water which this data will imprison will bo eight square miles in area, so that Bombay need bo under no apprehension onco tho viceroy has olii-cially olii-cially declared the sluices open and tha pipes of sixty miles long are in working order. Mr. Glover has 12,000 Hindoos, all of whom ho baa trained ttliis special work, employed on the daTi. To his thirty years' labor among the natives is due tho fact that there are in India today to-day .100.000 men, all capable stonemasons, stone-masons, carpenters mid navvies, who have been employed on his contracts for great public works. Pall Mall Gazette. |