And now began a work of tunnelling which lasted a good while, for one excavation led to another, and we did not stop until we had a whole underground village -- probably one of the most interesting works ever executed round a Polar station.
A great part of this excavation had to be done with axes, as we soon came to the bare ice.
Looking over the town, the buildings of Pennsylvania College are in full view, between the road leading northwest to Mummasburg, and the unfinished track of a railroad running west through a deep excavation a half-mile from the college.
This excavation looks like a cave of Cumæ or an air-hole of Avernus.
The funds for the excavation and repair of Balcony House in 1911 were largely furnished by the Colorado Cliff Dwellers Society, an organization founded and directed by Mrs. Gilbert McClurg, of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Excavation of this mound brought into view one of the most unusual buildings in the park.
The excavation work on Oak Tree House has not yet been completed, but a small collection of specimens at one end of the ruin shows the nature of the objects thus far found.
The open spaces between the boulders were excellent for kivas, as there was not a great deal of excavation necessary.
The top of the wall had been worn down at any rate 6 feet in the interval between the time it was abandoned and the date of excavation of the mound.
OTHER RUINS NEAR FAR VIEW HOUSE During the season of 1922 excavation and repair work in the vicinity of Far View House was carried on simultaneously.
Excavation and repair of Balcony House by Jesse || || | L.
Near the summit of the highest wall in the annex there grew a juniper tree of great antiquity, alive and vigorous when excavation work was begun.
The excavation of the tower and the area about its base led to the discovery that although it appeared to stand alone there were two subterranean rooms connected with its base.
This excavation and repair was the work of the late Dr.
Doubtless systematic excavationin the various parts of the ruin would afford an explanation.
Excavation revealed the floor level about 7½ feet below where the roof was placed.
Excavation would doubtless determine this, as the whole site has been much filled up with sand and loose earth.
But in De Chelly there were some sites where the requirement could not be filled without extensive rock excavationwholly beyond the power of the builders.
Excavation on these sites would probably yield valuable results.
We opened one of the many mounds that lie behind the Gasr, showing where most probably stood the ruined town; and we found the interior traversed by a crumbling wall of cut alabaster--regular excavation may some day yield important results.
Further west another excavation in the same kind of rock was probably the town-quarry.
We had her carried down daily in a hand-barrow to the sea-side, where an old excavation admitting the salt water was abundantly roomy and deep for her recreation and our observation.
When we reached the top we found no woods, but an old cellar or an excavation of a building.
It helps to pin down a rat's leg or other small portion of the carcass in the excavation just mentioned.
With our snow-shoes we dug down six feet to the ground, making an excavation that was, roughly, eight feet square.
I was continually standing up in the sledge to catch a sight, if possible, of some trailing pine where we could make an excavation and find fire-wood; but it was all in vain.
On the side of our excavation I made a rough bas-relief of the great masonic temple in Chicago.
Palestine, at first with only Sergeant Birtles for his assistant, but afterwards with several corporals as well, and with permission to engage a number of native labourers, according to the amount of excavationgoing on.
It is possible that at Tel Hum, where the (basaltic) rock is so hard as to make excavation difficult, this form of tomb was commonly used.
By this time, however, the building was gone, the excavation complete.
On October 29 Mr Colton at my instance took measurements of the brickwork in underpinning and filling in cavities in the walls and of the excavation done by the contractors.
All proper precautions must be observed during the progress of the work to prevent any injury to the building, the walls being properly braced and supported before excavation is commenced.
It was found necessary to make a detailed survey of the ruin and of the group of which it forms a part, and to make plans and sections showing the probable amount of excavation for the use of those who were invited to bid on the work.
Three north-and-south sections to show estimated amount of excavation necessary.
Three east-and-west sections to show estimated amount of excavation necessary.
Excavation after excavation turned out prolific, and as the result of our mining, I obtained no less than two thousand shekels of silver.
The location had also to be changed to permit the excavation of the rock under Ninth Avenue.
The excavation for and construction of a retaining wall in Seventh Avenue, 31st Street, Ninth Avenue, and 33d Street.
Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the deepestexcavation made.
The method of erection was as follows: An excavation was made on the line of each post, 4 ft.
Excavation over the area enclosed by the retaining wall.
The pit excavation during the horse-and-truck period was largely preparatory work done to get the excavation in good shape for handling spoil trains after Pier No.
Excavation was next made between the caps to a depth of about 5 ft.
The toe of the sheeting was kept level with the bottom of the excavation until the ground-water was reached, after which it was kept from 3 to 5 ft.
Smear the inside with oil, lay it upside down, and cover the top of the excavation with reeds or green boughs, throwing earth upon them.
The informant, an inmate of the nunnery, pointed out the place where the murdered babes were buried; and subsequent excavation revealed the horrible fact, that half the tale of blood had not been told.
This discovery induced an industrious search for their graves, and a carefulexcavation of them.
A secure chronological basis was supplied by Lepsius, and systematic excavation was commenced by Mariette, who was named by the Khedive Director of Antiquities and established the Cairo Museum.
But British, American, and German excavators have flashed light far back into the third millennium, and a partial excavation of Jerusalem has revealed a network of prehistoric tunnels and aqueducts.
Still more recently a German mission under Koldewey commenced the systematic excavation of Babylon itself; but its operations were interrupted by the outbreak of the Great War.
So rapid is the pace ofexcavation and interpretation that all but the most recent narratives of the Ancient East are out of date.
Saville's recent excavation of three remarkable subterraneous, cruciform chambers, the largest of which is situated on the summit of a high hill near Mitla.
The excavation was filled with logs and wood, and then covered with large stones.
The furnace that I saw was an excavation of three or four feet in the ground, in a circular form (sloping upwards), and about thirty feet across.
The excavation of the New Cut from Trowse Hythe to Whitlingham Reach was begun on May 6th.
The work of excavation was begun in the Lowestoft section on September 4th, when Mr. Crisp Brown dug the first spadeful of earth, and a dinner and aquatic sports were held to celebrate the event.
Then she executed a shallow excavation upon the site of the future city itself, carrying each pellet of earth outside beyond the entrance.
Some of the ugly baroque churches have been pulled down to allow the excavation of imperial Rome, but there are plenty of ugly baroque churches left.
They still make but a poor show there beside the treasures of Herculaneum, where the excavation of a few streets and houses has yielded costlier and lovelier things than all the lengths and breadths of Pompeii.
In color they are a very agreeable reddish brown, though not so soft to the eye as the velvety masses of the Palatine, which at any distance great enough to obscure their excavation have a beauty like that of primitive nature.
The important science of cachaye (Canadian expression) consists in leaving no trace which might betray it to the Indians; to prevent this, the earth taken from the excavationis put into blankets and carried to a great distance.
