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| generation to generation without change Of impulse or ‘4nten- 
n. Taking a guide and horses we climbed the mountain to the 
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north, and just before reaching the summit nearly a thousand feet 
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above the village and some six miles away, We encountered the quarry, 
‘About it were several large blocks removed from their beds while 
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others had been partly cut out or only begun. The work had tenn 
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ndertaken on the sloping surface of a solid mass of the rhyolite; ~J 
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@nannels had been cut the full length of the bloéks desired and to < 
‘the proper depth and likewise across the ends. When these were 
widened sufficiently, undercutting was begun and carried wis viak ks 
‘the maSS Was severed “nd could be broken off by the aid of levers 
“or wedges ae mood pecists 5 alee ee, After the removal of 
‘one block the amoung of cutting for each stone was reduced siigewha t, 
as one side only instead of two had to be channeled. The channels 
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observed were about a foot wide and the depth was about three feet 
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in the deepest. The larger blocks among the half dozen wholly re~- = | 
moved &nd set upon edge,are 12 feet or more in length by five or 
six wide and from two and a half to three feet thick. Ss pone 
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