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" ... a shovel and hammer were left on the spot by the divers ; but these tools were, contrary to their expectations, nowhere to be found on their next visit. In the progress of the excavation, however, while advancing the protecting wooden framework, this... "
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Page 257
1861
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...brought forward. In advancing one of the middle frames, the shovel and the hammer which had been missing, were found in the way of it, having descended at least eighteen feet into the ground. Notwithstanding the loose state of the ground, the shield had gradually gained under a more substantial...
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1842 - 516 pages
...brought forward. In advancing one of the middle frames, the shovel and the hammer which had been missing, were found in the way of it, having descended at least eighteen feet :nto the ground. Notwithstanding the loose state of the ground, the shield had gradually gained under...
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 524 pages
...brought forward. In advancing one of the middle frames, the shovel and the hammer which had been missing, were found in the way of it, having descended at least eighteen feet into the ground. Notwithstanding the loose state of the ground, the shield had gradually gained under a more substantial...
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The Geologist, Volume 4

Samuel Joseph Mackie - Geology - 1861 - 664 pages
...of the excavation, however, while advancing the protecting wooden framework, this missing shovel and hammer were found in the way of it, having descended...layers of fresh soil, and that some future geologist had found the lost hammer and shovel in the position described, it would, doubtless, have furnished...
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The Geologist, Volume 4

Samuel Joseph Mackie - Geology - 1861 - 670 pages
...of the excavation, however, while advancing the protecting wooden framework, this missing shovel and hammer were found in the way of it, having descended...with some ancient deposit. Supposing these articles liad not been recovered by the excavators ; and that the soft stratum through which they sunk so deeply...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 60

1863 - 568 pages
...of the excavation, however, while advancing the protecting wooden framework, this missing shovel and hammer were found in the way of it, having descended...resting on or mixed up with some ancient deposit." Again, it is no proof of a river's prevalence over the sea, and of subsequent subsidence, that a fluviatile...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 33

Medicine - 1864 - 588 pages
...of the excavations, however, while advancing the protecting wooden framework, the missing shovel and hammer were found in the way of it, having descended at least eighteen feet in the ground, and probably resting or mixed up with some ancient deposit. It now remains for as to...
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The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 33

Medicine - 1864 - 594 pages
...of the excavations, however, while advancing the protecting wooden framework, the missing shovel and hammer were found in the way of it, having descended at least eighteen feet in the ground, and probably resting or mixed up with some ancient deposit. It now remains for us to...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 33

1864 - 584 pages
...of the excavations, however, while advancing the protecting wooden framework, the missing shovel and hammer were found in the way of it, having descended at least eighteen feet in the ground, and probably resting or mixed up with some ancient deposit. It now remains for us to...
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The biblical antiquity of man; or, Man not older than the Adamic creation

Samuel Lucas - Bible and science - 1866 - 344 pages
...of the excavation, however, while advancing the protecting wooden framework, the missing shovel and hammer were found in the way of it, having descended...eighteen feet into the ground, and probably resting upon or mixed with, some ancient deposit." The remarks which the writer of the above makes on the occurrence,...
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