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Chedworth

Level pavement — 8 in concrete over hypocaust — tree makes bulging

Bathroom pavement is 3' — 4" (p 7B) from roof of tree on a wall

Wall in garden big worm 13 in from upper surface of stone which is 8 in deep, just

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pressed under edge of Well

Mr. Joachim

Worm (2) hibernating cockchafer & beetle grub 1 foot from top the worm move under than worm (1) Worm hole probably same

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as the 1st or 2nd.

This wall is covered only by few inches grass & mould. The worms are working in yellow clay soil with lumps of oolite in it. Found 3 big ones a few inches deeper than worm 2 but not under wall. Worms seem torpid

Worm 3 small 2 feet below level

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of soil on ledge — close to side of wall — Went down 2' 6" from soil on ledge & found no worms — except 1 or 2 near surface. About 5 in of black mould with few stones in it on top of old undisturbed

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wall outside — several at the back wall of stables — Tile found 22 in from surface

H. [Horace] forgot to put down that the tesselated have over hypocaust are level except where a big tree grew.

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Wood above stable behind outside wall 2' 2" of black mould full of stones above yellow clay

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[sketch]

a g & c d two trenches

c d 1st Room excavated Aug 1877

A lump of earth never excavated

Line of hedge

[annotation by Darwin:] Horace I was right