Excerpt from Memoir on Foundations in Compressible Soils: With Experimental Tests of Pile-Driving, and Formula for Resistance Deduced Therefrom In the construction Of the centre pier of the Albert bridge, at Saltash, On the Cornwall railway, a wrought-iron cylinder, 37 feet in diameter and 90 feet high, Open at top and bottom, was sunk through the mud to the rock. It was expected that forming a bank around the cylinder, after being sunk to the rock, would exclude the water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.