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Excerpt from A Text-Book on Retaining Walls and Masonry Dams Earthwork slopes are the surfaces formed when excavations, embankments, terraces, mounds, and other constructions are made in or with the natural earth. The earth is to be regarded in discussion as homogeneous and inelastic, and as consisting of particles more or less united by cohesion between which friction is generated whenever exterior forces tend to effect a separation. As some kinds of earth when dry are destitute of cohesion, these will first be considered under the term "loose earth." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.