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English: Native road-builders started with a base of large laterite boulders. Smaller laterite rocks are placed in a layer on top, then a layer of moorum. This is covered with road tar and surfaced with pea gravel. Natives are shown here placing and pounding the bottom layer into shape. This road was graded with United States equipment
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Source Military Engineer, October 1944, p. 333
Author United States Army

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Native road-builders started with a base of large laterite boulders. Smaller laterite rocks are placed in a layer on top, then a layer of moorum. This is covered with road tar and surfaced with pea gravel.

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