Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 7:1

הָאוֹמֵר לַחֲבֵרוֹ, בֵּית כּוֹר עָפָר אֲנִי מוֹכֵר לְךָ, הָיוּ שָׁם נְקָעִים עֲמֻקִּים עֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים אוֹ סְלָעִים גְּבוֹהִים עֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים, אֵינָן נִמְדָּדִין עִמָּהּ. פָּחוֹת מִכָּאן, נִמְדָּדִין עִמָּהּ. וְאִם אָמַר לוֹ כְּבֵית כּוֹר עָפָר, אֲפִלּוּ הָיוּ שָׁם נְקָעִים עֲמֻקִּים יוֹתֵר מֵעֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים אוֹ סְלָעִים גְּבוֹהִין יוֹתֵר מֵעֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ נִמְדָּדִין עִמָּהּ:

If one says to his neighbor: "I am selling you a beth-kor of soil, if there were clefts ten handbreadths deep, or rocks ten handbreadths high, [(this, when they are four by four handbreadths wide, in which instance, they are "distinctive" places)], they are not measured together with it [and he must give him a complete beth-kor of level earth. For one does not wish to spend money on one place and have it look like two or three places. A beth-kor is 75,000 cubits. For the sanctuary courtyard was two sa'ah, and it was a hundred by fifty cubits; and a kor is thirty sa'ah. ("soil":) fit for sowing. But if he said: "beth-kor," unqualified, or "a beth-kor of ground," even if it were all rocky, the sale stands. For he could have wanted it for building a house or spreading out fruit.] And if he said to him: "as a beth-kor of soil," [connoting, as it is, whether rocky ground or (arable) soil], even if there were clefts deeper than ten handbreadths or rocks higher than ten handbreadths, they are measured with it.

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