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deviation from the vertical in their zig-zag descent, as in Fig. 15. Thus, the majority of favoured situations in this mine are situ­ated on the foot-walls of a part of the fracture, somewhat as in Fig. 16. As the rocks dip at a flatter angle than on other parts of the field, these fractures also are more nearly horizontal, though, as usual, they are not-parallel to the dip of the strata. In consequence of the greater twist effects to the field here, they run more diagonally to the strike of the rock layers.
The general pitch of the lines of favoured situations agrees more with the line of, and pitch of, the main obstructions to the down­ward movement of the water than with the exact pitch of the strike of the rocks; but
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