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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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