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tion which results from parallel distortional strain in the normal piling becomes evident, as

Fig. 8.

is shown by comparing model 1, p. 9, in which the grains are in closest order, with model 6, p. 18, in which the grains are shown in maximum dilatation.

But this only affords a very partial illustration of the possibilities of the general dilatation,