Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950
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              out when a torrent or some other force of Nature has laid open a
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              vena
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              dílatata
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              in a valley, so that it appears either on the slope of a mountain
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              or hill or on a plain. </s>
              <s>Elsewhere the
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              Bergmeíster
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              doubles the width of the
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              head-meer and it is made fourteen fathoms wide, while the width of each of
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              the other meers remains single, that is seven fathoms, but the length is not
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              defined by boundaries. </s>
              <s>In some places the head-meer consists of three
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              double measures, but has a width of fourteen fathoms and a length of
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              twenty-one.</s>
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              <s>SHAPE OF A HEAD-MEER.</s>
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              <s>In the same way, every other meer is composed of two measures,
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              doubled in the same fashion, so that it is fourteen fathoms in width and
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              of the same length.</s>
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              <s>SHAPE OF EVERY OTHER MEER.</s>
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