Excerpt from On the Superficial Deposits Under Cambridge, and Their Influence Upon the Distribution of the Colleges There must have been rubbish pits belonging to any large establishment, whether monastic or scholastic, but a study Of the arrangement and uses of various parts Of the buildings will Often limit the possibilities in respect of the areas assigned to such purposes, and, except by the accident of Old relics being dug up during alterations and again thrown in, we may in this case take the stratigraphical order of the objects as indicating their chronological succession. Not so in the case Of the Oldest deposits on the early alluvial waste land, nor Of the transported material carried in to raise the ground, in both Of which Objects of any age or association may occur together. The large area finally occupied by a monastic or scholastic establishment was not necessarily all levelled up at once, but during every addition or adaptation the level Of the first buildings would be as far as possible maintained. 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.