Excerpt from Methods of the Mechanical Analysis of Soils and of the Determination of the Amount of Moisture in Soils in the Field The type having been established, a single sample, selected with care and judgment, is usually sufficient to determine whether the soil of that locality corresponds to the typical soil formation which it is desired to study. 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.