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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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And
when
you
learn
that
this
convulsion
probably
took
plus
at
the
bottom
of
an
ocean
hundreds
of
thousands
of
years
ago,
you
have
at
least
a
few
thoughts
over
which
to
ruminate,
which
will
make
you
at
once
too
busy
to
grumble,
and
ashamed
to
grumble.
Yet,
after
all,
I
hardly
think
the
lake
was
formed
in
this
way,
and
suspect
that
it
may
have
been
dry
for
ages
after
it
emerged
from
the
primeval
waves,
and
Snowdonia
was
a
palm-fringed
island
in
a
tropic
sea.
Let
us
look
the
place
over
more
fully.
You
see
the
lake
is
nearly
circular;
on
the
side
where
we
stand
the
pebbly
beach
is
not
six
feet
above
the
water,
and
slopes
away
steeply
into
the
valley
behind
us,
while
before
us
it
shelves
gradually
into
the
lake;
forty
yards
out,
as
you
know,
there
is
not
ten
feet
water;
and
then
a
steep
bank,
the
edge
whereof
we
and
the
big
trout
know
well,
sinks
suddenly
to
unknown
depths.
On
the
opposite
side,
that
flat-topped
wall
of
rock
towers
up
shoreless
into
the
sky,
seven
hundred
feet
perpendicular;
the
deepest
water
of
all
we
know
is
at
its
very
foot.
Right
and
left,
two
shoulders
of
down
slope
into
the
lake.
Now
turn
round
and
look
down
the
gorge.
Remark
that
this
pebble
bank
on
which
we
stand
reaches
some
fifty
yards
downward:
you
see
the
loose
stones
peeping
out
everywhere.
We
may
fairly
suppose
that
we
stand
on
a
dam
of
loose
stones,
a
hundred
feet
deep.
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