The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 36
reat changes of thesurface had occurred, was further evident, from the circumstance of findingat a deiith of nearly 10 feet two human skeletons, whose bones were scat-tered and rubbed, as if they had been carried thither by the settling of asemi-fluid mass. The wood-cut (Fig. 1,) shows a cross… … ginal valley, the strike of the strata, the position of the cutting, the drift assupposed by the author, and the joints which traverse generally the secondarystratification. The position of the cutting with regard to these is shown asbeing partly in the lias marl, and partly in the drift. The…
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