a certain range nearly cardinal. The walls a and b, and all parallel to them, run nearly E. and W. These were in great part, more or less standing, but fissured, in sloping cracks; but the walls whose plans had been N. and S.
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were universally down and in rubbish, unless something had accidentally propped them up. In the sketch No. 152, the gable wall a, had been built within about 2½ feet S. of b, a passage had probably run between them; b was kept up by flooring and other props to the northward, but a had swayed over at top to the northward, and leaned against b there, the bottom of both being buried in rubbish wherever the fracture had occurred.
The horizontal force and velocity with which a had been brought over against b, was small, as they only touched, at the top, and the space below was all hollow between, and yet a was not fractured by the coming in contact: it was about 2 ft. 3 in. thick and about 15 feet high above the rubbish. The sockets of the joists, whence they had been drawn and twisted out, were still visible on its face.