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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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Charles Kingsley
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Shot
out
of
a
volcano?
As
you
seem
determined
to
have
a
prodigy,
it
may
as
well
be
a
sufficiently
huge
one.
Well—
these
stones
lie
altogether;
and
a
volcano
would
have
hardly
made
so
compact
a
shot,
not
being
in
the
habit
of
using
Eley’s
wire
cartridges.
Our
next
hope
of
a
solution
lies
in
John
Jones,
who
carried
up
the
coracle.
Hail
him,
and
ask
him
what
is
on
the
top
of
that
cliff
.
.
.
So,
“Plainshe
and
pogshe,
and
another
Llyn.”
Very
good.
Now,
does
it
not
strike
you
that
this
whole
cliff
has
a
remarkably
smooth
and
plastered
look,
like
a
hare’s
run
up
an
earthbank?
And
do
you
not
see
that
it
is
polished
thus
only
over
the
lake?
that
as
soon
as
the
cliff
abuts
on
the
downs
right
and
left,
it
forms
pinnacles,
caves,
broken
angular
boulders?
Syenite
usually
does
so
in
our
damp
climate,
from
the
“weathering”
effect
of
frost
and
rain:
why
has
it
not
done
so
over
the
lake?
On
that
part
something
(giants
perhaps)
has
been
scrambling
up
or
down
on
a
very
large
scale,
and
so
rubbed
off
every
corner
which
was
inclined
to
come
away,
till
the
solid
core
of
the
rock
was
bared.
And
may
not
those
mysterious
giants
have
had
a
hand
in
carrying
the
stones
across
the
lake?
.
.
.
Really,
I
am
not
altogether
jesting.
Think
a
while
what
agent
could
possibly
have
produced
either
one
or
both
of
these
effects?
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