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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
90
Now,
just
in
the
same
way
as
the
wrinkles
and
curves
of
a
statue
are
cut
by
the
sculptor's
chisel,
so
the
hills
and
valleys,
the
steep
slopes
and
gentle
curves
on
the
face
of
our
earth,
giving
it
all
its
beauty,
and
the
varied
landscapes
we
love
so
well,
have
been
cut
out
by
water
and
ice
passing
over
them.
It
is
true
that
some
of
the
greater
wrinkles
of
the
earth,
the
lofty
mountains,
and
the
high
masses
of
land
which
rise
above
the
sea
,
have
been
caused
by
earthquakes
and
shrinking
of
the
earth.
We
shall
not
speak
of
these
to-day,
but
put
them
aside
as
belonging
to
the
rough
work
of
the
statuary
yard.
But
when
once
these
large
masses
are
put
ready
for
water
to
work
upon,
then
all
the
rest
of
the
rugged
wrinkles
and
gentle
slopes
which
make
the
country
so
beautiful
are
due
to
water
and
ice,
and
for
this
reason
I
have
called
them
"sculptors."
Go
for
a
walk
in
the
country,
or
notice
the
landscape
as
you
travel
on
a
railway
journey.
You
pass
by
hills
and
through
valleys,
through
narrow
steep
gorges
cut
in
hard
rock,
or
through
wild
ravines
up
the
sides
of
which
you
can
hardly
scramble.
Then
you
come
to
grassy
slopes
and
to
smooth
plains
across
which
you
can
look
for
miles
without
seeing
a
hill;
or,
when
you
arrive
at
the
seashore,
you
clamber
into
caves
and
grottos,
and
along
dark
narrow
passages
leading
from
one
bay
to
another.
All
these
-
hills,
valleys,
gorges,
ravines,
slopes,
plains,
caves,
grottos,
and
rocky
shores
-
have
been
cut
out
by
the
water.
Day
by
day
and
year
by
year,
while
everything
seems
to
us
to
remain
the
same,
this
industrious
sculptor
is
chipping
away,
a
few
grains
here,
a
corner
there,
a
large
mass
in
another
place,
till
he
gives
to
the
country
its
own
peculiar
scenery,
just
as
the
human
sculptor
gives
expression
to
his
statue.
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