Si terrena erunt, usque ad solidum, crassiora quam qui murus supra futurus erit, exinaniatur sicceturque et tunc structura ex caementis calce et harena compleatur.
If the foundations are on the sea bottom, they are to be emptied and drained to a greater width than the wall to be built upon them, and then the work is to be filled in with concrete of stone lime and sand.
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