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PREFACE.
I’he favourable reception accorded to his treatise on Dock Engineering
led the author to consider the possibility of supplementing that work by a
companion volume on the kindred subject of Harbour Engineering.
The principal difficulty lay in making such a treatise complété and self-
contained without recapitulating a good deal of material which had appeared
m the earlier book, and which was equally essential in the present instance,
the two departments of maritime engineering having so mach in common as
to be generally practised together.
The most acceptable solution which suggested itself consisted in treating
this common material in a somewhat different way from that previously
adopted, by presenting fresh points of view, additional features of interest,
and new illustrations. This plan has been followed, and it is hoped that it
will meet with approval.
Once more the author has to express his indebtedness to a number of
personal and professional friends who have rendered him kind and valued
assistance in the execution of his task; to the writers of papers and to the
societies who have courteously allowed him to make extracts from the
varions minutes of proceedings alluded to in the text; and to the editors of
Engineering and The Engineer for much useful information gleaned from the
columns of their respective journals.
As in the case of Dock Engineering, every care has been taken in regard
to the aecuracy of data and statistics, but mistakes are always possible, and
any intimation of their presence will be gratefully appreciated.
BRYSSON CUNNINGHAM.
London,
January 1908.