"Medial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... obvious enough expedient of representing the various species of simple rocks, by certain numerals, and the compound ones by the numerals representative of each separate component, ranged, as in vulgar fractions, along a medial line, with the figures representative of the prevailing materials of the mass above, and those representative of the materials in less proportions below. Though, however, wholly deficient in the signs proper to represent what I knew, ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller |
