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Show Por Const Defense. A very novel suggeutlon for tlio construction con-struction of forts to dofond our seaboard sea-board cltioo comes from Mr. Anderson, tho head of tho engineering firm which has contracted with tho government to build tho Ughthouso on Outer Diamond shoal, at Hattoras. Ills proposition is to sink caissons upon tho sandy shoals which exist at tho mouth of nearly all our rivers, and upon them to oroct forts of 300 foot in dlamoter, built of solid concroto, witli walls fifty feot thick, with a bomb proof armor of steel over tho Intorlor. Now York Telegram. |