, 1870-07-29
THE THAMES EMBANKMEHT.
Description OF 1hts Recent London
Improvement The t.ns1 OF the
N0Tk-A1vzAntnyc4o OF the Work.

DcAcT1If1on OF Ihis Ncccnt London
Improvement - The t.oss OF the
S"rk-AdvsAntnye@o Of the Work.
From The London Times, Jafy1&
Following in An eEeu line the general curve
Of the liver, the ennbankment extends from
Westminster 10 DlackfriaEA bridge. ri.iug as
each end By gentle gradient TO open upon
Bridge street. Westminster, opposito the
clrcE Tower q the Houses Of Parliament,
md upon Chatham place, Mackftiass, opposite
var. It passes beneath the railwaF bridge at
Hlnscrfosd, md beneath Waterloo Bridge.
1t IL about mile and quarter in Length.
AID Is 100 feet il width throughout
The csr1lAEe-way is Ga fee.
widc; tho footway On the land side sixtee1
planted With treca twenty feet apart. On tn
nvcr SIDE tic footxly Is bounded bv molde
granite rarapet. three feet six inches in height
aud On the land tide last1y by walls and partl
by temporary lroar1inE, which will be n1timato
y replaced t,y eaet-iron railing. The wall Q
magnitude and solidity. It is carried .iownt
depth Of thirty-two and one-h,lI feet below
Trinity high water mark, and fourteen feet bs-
low low water, and the lsrel Of the roadway is
generally fonr fett ahore high water. rising at
the e1tremities to twenty feet. The rising
ground at each extremity is rctaiucl by the iu-
creased height OF the Wall, which is built
throughout OF lriek, faced with granite, and
founded in roTlana cenent concrete. The
river front presents slightly concave sur
tece. which is plain from tbs base to mean
high water level, and il ornamentod abovo
that lerel ltF mouldiags, stopped a. intervals
Of about seventy feet By plain blocks OF gran
ITO, intended to bear lamp standards OF cast
iron, n,ld relieved oa The river TACO by hronze
lena, heatls carrying meoans Esoss. The uui-
i've piers u granite, vsh,ch 1auk recesses for
t:csmboat landing-stsges. and At otber places
}ty EtxiHa projecting into the river, and intend
I'd as landing places for small craft The
ttcsmboat piers occur at Westminster, Char
ing-t t.ss- and Waterloo braees. and tl,oso for
small boats midway tetween Westminste. and
Charing-c1oes, and betwcen Charing-cross and
Waterloo bridges, and both are united opposite
Esscx street. 1t IL intended eventually to sur
mount tho several blocks uud pedestals with
eroups Of etatuasJ. Within the recessea tor tha
ealnbost landing stages, admirably y-coatsivea
fall With the tide, and which carry the lower
eEds Of gangwa.s that are hinged to tue ma
ecnty above. The gangrays are formed Of
Two wTonBat-iron girde,s, carrying 1innhor
platforms and they mn7e between granite
':aaa.s parallel 10 &ho general line of the road
rco1ns AMI other mmodations for pAssen-
6tE;. On tito land side the enhankmeut is
.so.'tdcd fenEn Westminster almost to White
lsli-plaee ~ recovered fore-shore that is
claimed by tho Grown, and that e1tenls
over moro thsn four acEes Of ground
from there TO Waterloo Bridge, by simi-
lar foreshore, amounting to nearly eight
.cres. and becoming gradually nlrrowed from
Wcst to eakt. ILia portion Il INTENDED to le
rlat.tctl IA an ornamental garden for the en-
juyment OF the public To tho east OF Water
LOO Bridge IL what was once tho rirer front Of
Somerset 1Inu-e. all marked and scaryed By
water, mud will. huge mooting- rings projecting
from the maeopry. but now quite inl1nd, Next
comes 4 space behind the Clla1ing- Cross Rail-
way station. into which SurTy street. Norfolk
street, and A1undal street will eventually open.
,sl garden, and then piece added to the
grounds OF the Temple, but upon
which the TcmplarY will not he at lib
cs's to build. Lastly. there is tenn
porary cliaos Of p1r,ng stones and paviors
tools, separating the boundary wall OF sha car,
siage way from tho City Gas Works. 1t Is nos
easy for persona unAccnstomed to deal with
sEch 1nattcrs to form any clear conception Of
great Quantities expressed in nnmsri al state
tnents, and it il. nevertheless, worth whs to
place On record the otficial accounts of tha
ccss OF the work, and Of the amount Of various
l.i1:t}b Of material employed in its construc-
'.on. The total cost is estimated 1t 81, 900;
snd tho purchh-e ofproputty at Ei50.D,l0. The
quantities Of materials ase statad to have been
| 1t: follows: Granite. G50. .DtD cabic feet !:
ssirt-aork, so:eeo yards: concrete, 1sa.ea,
stl eco cubic feet caIsaons, flor do,) $500
tons: earth filling, 1,000, 900 c,,bis yards e1-
cavation, III. 600 cubic yards; York paving,
IL, ,0O0 superficial feat; broken granite, 81, ,o90
superficial yards. Among the many other al-
yan.agos Of this great work, II will enable
I.ondoncss to Tcafizu, for The frst time, the
beauty Of familiar objects, for which they
have until now possessed no favorable point OF
.lcw. The spectator who takes his stand q
Little 70 tie west Of The Charing cross bridge,
] III the land eide fnotway, and looks thence Al
Ihe Moaeea o. lafamSnt lsa aaa 81. Ihomas
tc.s q! their character, and OF taeir claims to
tdEiirrLior.