Frontispiece, Figure J. Railway cutting in pervious and impervious strata -- 45 2. Railway tunnel through a ridge --47 3. Diagram to illustrate Rule for finding true dip -75 4. Map of area geologically surveyed -80 5. Section of strata -- 87 6. across area geologically surveyed -97 J} 7. to illustrate the nature of springs and their water-level -132 PLATE II.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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