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Excerpt from Retaining-Walls for Earth: Including the Theory of Earth-Pressure as Developed From the Ellipse of Stress, With an Appendix Presenting the Theory of Prof. Weyrauch The first edition of this work was based upon the theory advanced by Prof. Weyrauch in 1878, but owing to the length of the demonstrations used by him, it was thought advisable to present different and shorter demonstrations in this edition. To show that the new demonstrations give identical results with those obtained by Prof. Weyrauch, his demonstrations have been given in an appendix as they appeared in the first edition. 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.