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"ref": "1701 July, “III. Chartham News: Or A Brief Relation of Some Strange Bones There Lately Digged Up, in Some Grounds of Mr John Somner’s in Canterbury”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XXII, number 272, London: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in St Paul's Church-yard, published 1702, →OCLC, page 892",
"text": "By the way, it is obſerved that the nature of the Soil here and there, is ſuch, ſo looſe, ſupple, rotten and ſandy, that meerly of itſelf, it is apt to ſink and fall in; as was lately experienced by a Saw-pit, digg'd hard by, which after a little time by the Earths giving way on each ſide of it, fell in, and fill'd up itſelf.",
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"text": "When master took Atkinson and Warren from the saw pit I was put to work there, but as I was a new hand I did not work well, and master used me very badly for it: it was the first time I ever held a saw; I was never given any regular task, but I did all I could to give satisfaction.",
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"ref": "1853 February 12, “Simmons v. Lillystone”, in W[illiam] N[ewland] Welsby, E[dwin] T[yrrell] Hurlstone, J. Gordon, editors, The Exchequer Reports. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber, volume VIII (Trinity Vacation, 15 Vict. to Trinity Term, 16 Vict. Both Inclusive), London: S. Sweet, W. Maxwell, and V. & R. Stevens & G. S. Norton, law booksellers and publishers; Dublin: Hodges & Smith, Grafton Street, →OCLC, headnote, page 431",
"text": "The evidence in support of the second count was, that some timber of the plaintiff's being on the close of the defendant, he removed it, and it having been again placed there, and become embedded in the soil, he directed his workmen to dig a sawpit at the place where the timber was, and in digging the pit the timber was cut through, and part remained embedded in the soil, and other part was washed away by the river.",
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"ref": "1882, B[aden] H[enry] Baden-Powell, “Application of the Forest Act to Forest Offences”, in A Manual of Jurisprudence for Forest Officers: Being a Treatise of the Forest Law, and Those Branches of the General Civil and Criminal Law which are Connected with Forest Administration; with a Comparative Notice of the Chief Continental Laws, Calcutta: Printed by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, →OCLC, section IV(d) (Control of Timber in Transit and Offences Connected with It), § 6 (Prevention of Timber Piracy), page 301",
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