Star.
London, England, 1802-08-28 00:00:00

CONSTRUCTION OF THE WET mom,

The Was are 29 feet deep, built round with
brick work, five feet in thickness at top, and co-
vered with large square !tones as coping to the
will. About two feet below the top is a groove
in the brick work, about fix inches deep, and a
foot wide, into which a timber is inferred to keep
the !hip, from injuring, or being injured by the
brick work.

84:ch are the Wet Dock., or rather the Wet
D9ek at prefent, for there is only one iiniiited, the
1.17.;11 of Which is t 600 feet, and the width s;y.
That which is yet to be made will be of the fame
but narrower by too feet.

A magnificent entrance or gateway to the qnays
is intended, with allegorical devices, and there will
be a high wall round the whole, be ides a Roping
ditch. The numbers of bottles for the refidenee of
clerks and workmen will convert the marth in time
into a town ; fo that London will really extend,
from Paddington turnpike to Blackwell without
any interruption whatever.
It having been previoully known that the lir ft
(hips were to enter yeflerday by the lrair of one
o'clock, a great concourfo of perfons of all ranks
attended. The water had been introdurel through
lquare apeiture in the flood gates on Wedneiday,
lo as .0 prevent thole who attended what may lax
called lb: inauguration f the enttrinize, from waiting
to‘• long a time.
The docks were filled nearly to the height of
the tide at high water on Thurfday. The tern.
porary bridge, under which was the wooden bar-
; ricade that refilled the water when the colfre dam
broke, was taken away ; and over the 5; it fluice
was erected a horizontal draculrike, on a new and
improved plan. It divides in two in the middle,
and each half moves off' horizontally on a pivot,
bejng fupported in its horizontal poll:ion by an
equal balance made in the part. themfi L.:es, and
a circular ring' of. call iron, twelve feet in dia-
.meter, on which are rollers that are felions of
cmcs, IV as naturally to move agreeable to the
curvature of the circle, in a manner (imilar to that
in which the roof of a windmill turns upon the
walls. We had particular fatisfadian iu examin-
irg this bridge.
There are two floodgates at the outer lock, be- •
, teen the River and the Refervoir, and two mole
between the Refervoir
.and the Wet Deck. The
floodgates all open inwards, to refift the prelittre
of the water in the Docks when the tide k low.
There are at each lock perpendicular windlaffes
,of caR iron, placed in Circular wells dug in the.
grounds • and built round with brick and Bone,
the purpofc of opening and (hutting the flood gates
—thole are worked from abiwe by men ; the ropes
which conned the whi Uaffes and, the gates being
altogether under water.

The' fiery pleating, and itnpreflive plot of G.:7n-
fitivo qrr'oVa rit- '11.!,e Corp :ft CrerouP, at the;
Ropl Circits, Is attended cet lonic of the.
roott- rolignificent fenes we have witiwifed ;
Uri bein.g *tore attranite by the
fiVeTeirieg'4 REEVES mufic among theta the
AthitralS*; the Fsad 'Of Battle, the-pterifive
ma-
rine the `viOtlfieittnfli atterfitinthe boayd-
iiig.or the icbeck, with the • -fine sating or.
Zoiada, its sir Eek.; :arid the Taft &elle; the 'exiito.
tint of the Cable of. the Four Towers, are rainy
TolmCroo and the Triode ofßeset is alto in die

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