Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 306
f fine vegetable mould, in onepart 7 inches in thickness. This evidently consistedof worm-castings, several of which had been recentlyejected. The whole stone had sunk in the thirty-fiveyears, as far as I could judge, about 1|- inch ; and thismust have been due to the brick-rubbish beneath themore… … 278 A Book of Natural History this could have occurred, some earth would have beenwashed down by heavy rain from the castings on theraised border of turf over the upper surface of the stone.The second stone was larger than the one justdescribed, viz., 67 inches in length, 39 in breadth, and15 in…
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