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(Woodcut 12)
[Earthworms, fig. 13, p. 212: Section of the subsided floor of a room, paved with tesserae, at Silchester. Scale 1/40.]

(no writing)

Section E North [annotated sketch] Horizontal line South

(This represents pavement of small tiles - vertical lines further apart.)

(These oblique lines are too far apart they represent the ground beneath the pavement.)

Silchester; Section through a room 18ft length to the building walls, these to illustrate sagging of the [illeg] pavement - Scale 1/40 of natural size
Reduced 1/40

The distance from wall to wall is made 18' 4" as Horace makes it

The curve of pavement at end (a) is drawn from the wall to 1 ft distance by eye. At end (a) is known within 4" of wall.

Measurements checked

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(South) Fig. 13
[Earthworms, fig. 14, p. 214: A north and south section through the subsided floor of a corridor, paved with tesseræ. Outside the broken-down bounding walls, the excavated ground on each side is shown for a short space. Nature of the ground beneath the tesseræ unknown. Silchester. Scale 1/36.]

Mould dark shading as in other cuts.

Mould with many stones, but too many stones here introduced.

I think the oblique line to signify nature unknown, ought to be closer together

(North)

Mould, shaded to match

shaded to match opposite side

N. B. Section to end when I have drawn pencil line & 2 old buried walls to go to bottom

No writing on cut

Scale 1/36 all checked.

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Woodcut 14

(Fig. G.)
[Earthworms, fig. 15, p. 216: Section of the subsided floor, paved with tessarae, and of the broken-down bounding walls of a room at Silchester, which had been formerly enlarged, with the foundations of the old wall left buried. Scale 1/40.]

Pavement of small tiles to be engraved as in fig. 12.

Silchester — Section through [several words illeg] walls of a small room which had been enlarged with the hard foundation of the old not clear left buried beneath the interior - Scale 1/40 of natural size

This horizontal line must be introduced had better be dotted.

Remains of old wall

to be engraved as in fig. 12

All measurements checked Scale 1/40

my ridge comes by eye at just over 6-6