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been saved if the western breakwater had been run strarght to a point, 1000
feet higher up the river bank, has since been constructed. “ The entrance
is open to gales from the north-north-west to the north-north-east, but the
— River Regulation Works at Westport, New Zealand.
Scale. 1 inch = i mile
heaviest seas are experienced from the north-west ; in exceptional cases,
occurring perhaps not once in a year, these seas break about one mile out in
about 8 fathoms of water, and from thence to the bar is a mass of broker)