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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
88
And
now
we
have
reached
the
end
of
the
travels
of
our
drop
of
water.
We
have
seen
it
drawn
up
by
the
fairy
"heat,"
invisible
into
the
sky;
there
fairy
"cohesion"
seized
it
and
formed
it
into
water-drops
and
the
giant,
"gravitation,"
pulled
it
down
again
to
the
earth.
Or,
if
it
rose
to
freezing
regions,
the
fairy
of
"crystallization"
built
it
up
into
snow-crystals,
again
to
fall
to
the
earth,
and
either
to
be
melted
back
into
water
by
heat,
or
to
slide
down
the
valleys
by
force
of
gravitation,
till
it
became
squeezed
into
ice.
We
have
detected
it,
when
invisible,
forming
a
veil
round
our
earth,
and
keeping
off
the
intense
heat
of
the
sun's
rays
by
day,
or
shutting
it
in
by
night.
We
have
seen
it
chilled
by
the
blades
of
grass,
forming
sparkling
dew-drops
or
crystals
of
hoar-frost,
glistening
in
the
early
morning
sun;
and
we
have
seen
it
in
the
dark
underground,
being
drunk
up
greedily
by
the
roots
of
plants.
We
have
started
with
it
from
the
tropics,
and
travelled
over
land
and
sea,
watching
it
forming
rivers,
or
flowing
underground
in
springs,
or
moving
onwards
to
the
high
mountains
or
the
poles,
and
coming
back
again
in
glaciers
and
icebergs.
Through
all
this,
while
it
is
being
carried
hither
and
thither
by
invisible
power,
we
find
no
trace
of
its
becoming
worn
out,
or
likely
to
rest
from
its
labours.
Ever
onwards
it
goes,
up
and
down,
and
round
and
round
the
world,
taking
many
forms,
and
performing
many
wonderful
feats.
We
have
seen
some
of
the
work
that
it
does,
in
refreshing
the
air,
feeding
the
plants,
giving
us
clear,
sparkling
water
to
drink,
and
carrying
matter
to
the
sea;
but
besides
this,
it
does
a
wonderful
work
in
altering
all
the
face
of
our
earth.
This
work
we
shall
consider
in
the
next
lecture,
on
"The
two
great
Sculptors
-
Water
and
Ice."
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