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236 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
APPENDIX. N OTB continued.
going on the South Bull next year.
Find a difficulty in being supplied
with oak timber for piles : Suggest
fir for two or three rows. The
engine from Holland is shipped,
(Ib.) 19th January, 1716-17: Have
continued piling below Ringsend
with an engine as far as the sea
would permit : Propose going on
the South Bull : Have oak timber
for one set of piles ;
but four rows
of piles required, (Ib.) 19th July,
1717: Three hundred piles driven
on South Bull : On North side have
laid 258 kishes since last report of
18th January, 1717. Have 611ed
the spaces between these with
hurdles and stones, (Ib.} 18th
South Bull
October, 1717 : On
have driven 567 piles
in three
rows, since last report : the intervals
filled with stones. On the North
side have laid and filled 400 kishes
this summer (Ib.) 17 January,
1717-18
: Have laid 348 kishes on
north side since last report (Ib.)
25th April, 1718 : Have filled up
the breaches made in the South
Bull by last winter's storms with
furze and stones, (Ib.). 13th July,
proceeding
with the
1718 : Are
wall on the South Bull. On the
north side have laid kishes as far
as opposite Ringsend ; and are
laying down kishes in a line from
the east end of the aforesaid kishes
towards the Island, (Ib.) 16th
January, 1718-19 : The piling of
the South Bull is proceeding. Have
agreed
for one hundred tons of
long piles from Wales, (Ib.) 20th
July, 1720 : The sea scarcely
leaves the East End of the piles
which makes the work slow : Are
wattling between the piles which
they hope will in time raise a bank
(Ib.), 21st April, 1721 : Instead
of piling by the Engine which is
found impracticable so far at sea,
have used frames made of piles
abouttwenty-two feet in length and
ten feet in breadth twenty-four
piles in each frame. These are
floated out from Blackrook accom-
panied by two gabbards filled with
stones quarried there, and the
frames are then filled with stones
and sunk, (Ib.) 23rd April, 1723 :
Have not proceeded as yet with
the piling on the South Bull ;
but
the season being proper, propose
now to proceed, having 1 2'2.5 pieces
of timber for that purpose, (Ib.)
20th January, 1726: The thirteen
frames mentioned in the last report
have withstood all the storms,
except one frame sent a drift (Ib.)
19th January, 1727-8: Have set
down four more frames, (Ib.) 19th
July, 1 728 : Have set down eight
frames more ; about 300 feet in
length, (Ib.) 13th October, 1728:
To protect the float men raising
stones at Blackrock, suggest that
two frames be set down at Black-
rock, 14th October, 1726: Four
more frames made since the last
report which together with the
former nine are set down on the
South Bull extending in length
eighteen perches. The floats are
now securing the same with stones
from Blackrock, (Ib.) 20th October,
this season made
1727 : Have
seven frames all of the new model,
containing 400 feet in length, (//>.)
17th January, 1728-9: One frame
of piles for piling the channel of