Anthony Wrote:
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> MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> >
> > We know from the Descending Passage that we
> are
> > dealing with experts at tunnelling in a
> straight
> > line, and over quite a distance distance, too
> -
> > the bedrock section of the DP is an
> unnerving
> > 232.5 feet long.
> > Yet here we have a shaft meandering all over
> the
> > place.
>
>
> Not true.
Colloquial english, Anthony; I'm not writing for
Nature
> They used this particular set of angles to "hit"
> the bottom of the Descending Passage after
> deciding they needed the passageway to let the
> workers out of the burial area when they had
> completed their task of releasing the plug stones.
An interesting hypothesis, but not one I agree with.
Please do read Jon's post re the German article on the Shaft, and my reply to him.
Henry Salt's letters about Cavligia's exploits in the Well Shaft are most enlightening.
MJ