Let the intervening space be filled up with fascines, weighted with shingle ; the fascines should be made of manuka scrub, six feet long and twelve inches thick, tightly bound together; they should be placed in alternate layers along and across the line of embank ment, and as each layer is put down it should be thoroughly filled up and weighted down with shingle. When the level of the top of the posts is reached, let rails be bolted to the posts across the top of the embankment, to serve both as struts and ties. To finish the work, let shingle be tipped over the embankment on each side until a slope is formed rising to within two feet of the top. Where the height of embankment is re quired to be more than six feet, first make a similar embankment, eighteen feet wide, and on the top of this build another, six feet wide, and tip shingle over all. Any height of embankment may thus be raised in steps, eich.step to be six feet wide on each side-, but ft should be reflected that the water overflows in a wide shallow stream, so that a single height of embankment will probably be sufficient at every point. I am confidei t that this would form an efficient and durable protection, at a cost quite within the means at the disposal of the Government. The position of the bank would of course be such as to avoid any great scour, and a deposit of silt would soon be formed on the outer slope sufficient to consolidate and strengthen the whole work- Being composed of materials readily pro curable, and requiring only oruinary labour and the most simple tools, a large number of men could be put on the wo k at once, so as to complete it during the season when the river is free from flo--ds. If the position of these banks was deter mined, and lines of levels taken to show the length and height to which they would have to be carried, tenders might at once be called for, on the understanding that tt.ey will not be accepted unless tfiey fulfil certain con ditions as to amount, &c.; such conditions to be determined beforehand by the Provinci il Council. Yours, &c., JAMES WYLDE. Egglesfield, Jan. 13,1866.
