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purposes, so that three cottages and a large dwelling house had 

 been erected on it; but the railway cutting through this landslip 

 near its base, at a place where it is 125 yards wide and its 

 greatest depth 20 feet, caused the upper side of the cutting to 

 shew signs of movement, by slight swellings of the soil at the 

 foot of the bank. This movement increased and extended 

 upwards throiighout the whole mass to a height above the valley 

 of at least 200 feet, and has now caused the destruction of the 

 dwelling house and cottages, and also made it necessary to 

 demoHsh a handsome newly erected bridge, which had been 

 constructed to carry a parish road over the railway. 



" Besides the slips of Fiollers Earth described as now occupying 

 the bottoms of hollows in this hill side, there are one or two 

 masses which have not descended far. One of these may be 

 seen just below Amberley Court, which, so recently as 1830, or 

 thereabouts, made a considerable movement, and was only 

 stopped by drains being cut behind it, and by a strong buttressed 

 wall being built against the foot of the slipping mass. 



*' Another example of a recent landslip occurred near the Box 

 village, a mile above Nailsworth. This was a movement of 

 Fullers Earth on a large scale, which took place about the year 

 1826, when after an unusually wet season an area of five acres 

 moved forward in the course of a single night. A deep drain 

 was immediately cut above the whole of the slipped mass, so as 

 to carry off the water to either side, and this has sufficed to 

 arrest its further downward course." 



