Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 5Devonshire Press, 1872 - Devon (England) List of members in each volume. |
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... rock , and at the depth in the rock at which it was met with , the surrounding lime - stone being every where equally strong , and requiring the same labour to quarry it ; Mr. WHITBY saw no possibility of the cavern having had any ...
... rock , and at the depth in the rock at which it was met with , the surrounding lime - stone being every where equally strong , and requiring the same labour to quarry it ; Mr. WHITBY saw no possibility of the cavern having had any ...
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... rock ; about thirty feet long and six wide . It lay nearly horizontal ; was perfectly straight ; and was surmounted with solid rock . " 29th . About twenty - five feet to the left of the large cave , a mass of clay appeared . Its sides ...
... rock ; about thirty feet long and six wide . It lay nearly horizontal ; was perfectly straight ; and was surmounted with solid rock . " 29th . About twenty - five feet to the left of the large cave , a mass of clay appeared . Its sides ...
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... rock . " Another fact to be remembered is the following . The workmen had blown up , in this direction , 600 feet of solid rock , without meeting with a single cave . They had now almost worked the rock through , in a right angle , from ...
... rock . " Another fact to be remembered is the following . The workmen had blown up , in this direction , 600 feet of solid rock , without meeting with a single cave . They had now almost worked the rock through , in a right angle , from ...
Contents
List of Officers | 5 |
Charles Babbage F R S S S Bastard William | 35 |
What is Grimspound? By G Wareing Ormerod M A F G | 41 |
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