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              <s>A, C—
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              Vena dilatata
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              CROSSING A
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              vena profunda.
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              <s> B—
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              Vena profunda.
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              <s> D, E—
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              Vena
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              dilatata
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              WHICH JUNCTIONS WITH A
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              vena profunda.
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              <s> F—
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              Vena profunda.
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              <s> G—
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              Vena dilatata.
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              H, I—ITS DIVIDED PARTS. K—
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              Vena profunda
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              WHICH DIVIDES THE
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              vena dilatata.
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              <s>Finally, a
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              vena profunda
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              has a “beginning” (
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              origo
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              ), an “end” (
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              finis
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              ), a
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              “head” (
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              caput
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              ), and a “tail” (
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              cauda
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              ). That part whence it takes its rise
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              is said to be its “beginning,” that in which it terminates the “end.” Its
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              “head”
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              is that part which emerges into daylight; its “tail” that part
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              which is hidden in the earth. </s>
              <s>But miners have no need to seek the
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              “beginning” of veins, as formerly the kings of Egypt sought for the source
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              of the Nile, but it is enough for them to discover some other part of the vein
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              and to recognise its direction, for seldom can either the “beginning” or the
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              “end” be found. </s>
              <s>The direction in which the head of the vein comes into
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              the light, or the direction toward which the tail extends, is indicated by its
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              footwall and hangingwall. </s>
              <s>The latter is said to hang, and the former to lie.
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              <s>The vein rests on the footwall, and the hangingwall overhangs it; thus,
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              when we descend a shaft, the part to which we turn the face is the foot­
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              wall and seat of the vein, that to which we turn the back is the hanging­
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              wall. </s>
              <s>Also in another way, the head accords with the footwall and the tail
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              with the hangingwall, for if the footwall is toward the south, the vein
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              extends its head into the light toward the south; and the hangingwall,
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              because it is always opposite to the footwall, is then toward the north.
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              <s>Consequently the vein extends its tail toward the north if it is an inclined
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              vena profunda.
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              <s> Similarly, we can determine with regard to east and west
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              and the subordinate and their intermediate directions. </s>
              <s>A
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              vena profunda
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              which descends into the earth may be either vertical, inclined, or crooked,
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              the footwall of an inclined vein is easily distinguished from the hangingwall,
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              but it is not so with a vertical vein; and again, the footwall of a crooked
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              vein is inverted and changed into the hangingwall, and contrariwise the
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              hangingwall is twisted into the footwall, but very many of these crooked
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              veins may be turned back to vertical or inclined ones.</s>
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