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times went in hollows, according as [T. I. p. 289] it 

 occurred to them to hew the stone, and its natural 

 divisions. The adits into the chalk hill went mostly 

 horizontally, yet they sloped a little down in some places. 

 On both sides of the main adits there were other adits, 

 both ad angulos acutos, rectos, et obtusos, so that if the 

 entrances of all these cross-galleries had been open, this 

 would have been to one unacquainted with them the worst 

 Labyrinth and maze, irrg&ng, there could possibly be, 

 but these adits were now mostly filled up with the loose 

 bits of Freestone which had been broken off in the process 

 of hewing. 



The stone divided itself here in the mine all in cracks 

 or fissures which all went from above downwards, ofvan 

 ifr&n ned&t, more or less perpendicularly, but no 

 fissures ever ran horizontally or very obliquely, which was 

 the unanimous account of the workmen. These fissures 

 were sometimes broader, 6 inches wide or more, some- 

 times quite narrow, but nearly all very deep, so that a stick 

 4 feet long could be stuck into them without reaching 

 the end of them. These stones clear each other some- 

 what perpendicularly ad angulos rectos, or as though the 

 whole of the lower part of the chalk hill inside, as it 

 were, consisted of four-sided pillars, placed perpen- 

 dicularly, yet of unequal thickness, that is to say, that 

 some of these square pillars were larger, some less. 

 Similarly the sides also are not of the same breadth, so 

 that when on one pillar all four sides are of equal breadth, 

 on another only the two opposite sides may be of the 

 same breadth — e.g., two of the opposite sides may be 

 6' feet broad, but again the two other sides standing 

 opposite to one another [T. I. p. 290] are not more than 

 4 feet, 2 feet, or 18 inches broad, and so forth. One 

 does not here expect an absolute mathematical equality 

 in breadth of the four, or of the two sides which stand 



