The en coup de sabre variety probably represents a more superficial form of progressive facial hemiatrophy (the Parry–Romberg syndrome), a condition of slowly progressive atrophy of the soft tissue of half of the face with or without associated dermal sclerosis.

Amuta and the twelve-year-old have produced calabashes of palm wine and are busy pouring out healthy drams into the cupped hands of black and white alike.

The Villages, that lie ſpangled about this vaſt Circumference, as well on the other Side the noble Thames, […] are beautiful, both by Buildings and Situation, beyond what I had imagined; and ſeveral of them ſeem larger than many of our Country Towns of Note.

The crack extends down to the baserock and up to the dam crest.