Excerpt from Bridge Foundations, Vol. 19 The book is intended only as an introduction to the subject Of bridge foundations, and has been written in the scant leisure of ordinary business. There is room for a careful and com prehensive work on bridge foundations. The best books known to me are American, and they leave something to be desired by British engineers. Much might be done towards standardizing the practice in design, as regards both the determination of loads and the allow able pressures on beds. There is not even a uniform nomenclature for bed materials. 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.