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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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This
explains
our
pebble-ridge.
The
stones
which
the
glacier
rubbed
off
the
cliff
beneath
it
it
carried
forward,
slowly
but
surely,
till
they
saw
the
light
again
in
the
face
of
the
ice-cliff,
and
dropped
out
of
it
under
the
melting
of
the
summer
sun,
to
form
a
huge
dam
across
the
ravine;
till,
the
“Ice
age”
past,
a
more
genial
climate
succeeded,
and
neve
and
glacier
melted
away:
but
the
“moraine”
of
stones
did
not,
and
remains
to
this
day,
as
the
dam
which
keeps
up
the
waters
of
the
lake.
There
is
my
explanation.
If
you
can
find
a
better,
do:
but
remember
always
that
it
must
include
an
answer
to—
“How
did
the
stones
get
across
the
lake?”
Now,
reader,
we
have
had
no
abstruse
science
here,
no
long
words,
not
even
a
microscope
or
a
book:
and
yet
we,
as
two
plain
sportsmen,
have
gone
back,
or
been
led
back
by
fact
and
common
sense,
into
the
most
awful
and
sublime
depths,
into
an
epos
of
the
destruction
and
re-creation
of
a
former
world.
This
is
but
a
single
instance;
I
might
give
hundreds.
This
one,
nevertheless,
may
have
some
effect
in
awakening
you
to
the
boundless
world
of
wonders
which
is
all
around
you,
and
make
you
ask
yourself
seriously,
“What
branch
of
Natural
History
shall
I
begin
to
investigate,
if
it
be
but
for
a
few
weeks,
this
summer?”
To
which
I
answer,
Try
“the
Wonders
of
the
Shore.”
There
are
along
every
sea-beach
more
strange
things
to
be
seen,
and
those
to
be
seen
easily,
than
in
any
other
field
of
observation
which
you
will
find
in
these
islands.
And
on
the
shore
only
will
you
have
the
enjoyment
of
finding
new
species,
of
adding
your
mite
to
the
treasures
of
science.
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