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which a wise man
a wise man would take in
building
not even
ove
a drains. The house had
proper fomisations. Or is
rivôled with old cracks in many places due to subsirences of the ground at various times. These subsidences have been due to the
fact that the ravine along the bottom of which ran the drain in question was
simply filled in with soune boutiers.
the from adjoining hill sine intermixed with res earth and this bank
of
earth
and stover being finisher off level, the house was built on
the top
of it.
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in the ravine to
In filling
filling in the
form his house site it
was
found
that Wt foughtries prèseccier had
thrown large round boulders
... ...
the
top of
the
Conver
stones
of
the
Government
Government drain smashing in two
... ...
have
three of these. The
fallen
cover stones must
in and been swept down
as no trace could found of them in the drain. Fortunately the boulders
were
so very large
as to be
of the
size fully able to span the drain and therefore to take the
place of stones they has displaces. To this is due the circumstance that during the storm the drain dis not
size
collapse. But the larger the of round boutiers, the larger the hollows and interstices between them, and it is easy to conceive how in the course
summer
of years during heavy
freskets, the
ear!!! in these
interstices round the places where the bouliers had replaced the
washed
cover stones, must have got out into the drain, gradually
honeycombing the bank where the
finn
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