Mair reports work described in 1844 to install counterforts in slopes, which were typically trenches that were two metres wide and around eight metres apart. They were dug down one metre and backfilled with gravel or rubble stone to provide internal buttresses and deep drains.

The secondary arch consists of four pieces of bone, the posttemporal, supracleithrum, cleithrum and postcleithrum. […] The cleithrum is the largest piece and the other elements are attached to it.

Nor are the properties of absolute certainty, rational irrevisability, or infallibility attributed to a priori claims.

He liked to stand storkwise, on one leg, his fingers playing with the toes of the upraised foot.