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Jan 18 /72

After late storms & much rain examined many scores of castings of field, level, on ordinary grazed pasture (very few castings comparatively with Holwood) at it is certain that all show evidence of having been carried by wind a little to leeward; for all slope gently (like by ice-worn hillocks to N.) to windward & steep to leewards — Very many not only steep to leeward, but then summit curl over, really [miniature] course below. It is certain that on land grass-covered surface the Earth for long packed on the grass must be driven to the leeward, in relation to prevailing wind, what is accompanied by rain

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& then with as is to S. W. wind. — I do not yet know how far the dry crumbly pellets can be driven by dry N. E. wind — I shd think wd sure be entangled in roots of grass.

I had thought, that clearing them, that no action through worm on level surface —

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