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a public carriage road  or a private carriage road,  a public field-path or a private field-path which is used both in the dry and the rainy season.'  How does the partition affect uncleanness? — As we have learnt:  'If a man goes into a plain  in the rainy season where there is known to be uncleanness  in a certain field, and he says, I went to that place [i.e. plain] but I do not know if I went to that spot or not, R. Eliezer declares him clean and the Sages declare him unclean,'for R. Eliezer used to say that 'if there is a doubt whether a man entered a place of uncleanness he is clean, but if there is a doubt whether he touched an unclean thing, he is unclean.' In respect of Sabbath, however, these things do not form a partition.  Raba, however, says that they form a partition even in respect of Sabbath, as it has been taught: If a man takes out half a dry fig into a public place,  and puts it down and then takes out another half a dry fig, in one spell of unawareness that it was Sabbath, he is penalised [for breaking the Sabbath],  but if under two spells of unawareness, he is not penalised.  R. Jose said: If he