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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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Now
just
this,
which
we
can
watch
whenever
a
heavy
shower
of
rain
comes
down
on
the
road,
happens
also
all
over
the
world.
Up
in
the
mountains,
where
there
is
always
a
great
deal
of
rain,
little
rills
gather
and
fall
over
the
mountain
sides,
meeting
in
some
stream
below.
Then,
as
this
stream
flows
on,
it
is
fed
by
many
runnels
of
water,
which
come
from
all
parts
of
the
country,
trickling
along
ruts,
and
flowing
in
small
brooks
and
rivulets
down
the
gentle
slope
of
the
land
till
they
reach
the
big
stream,
which
at
last
is
important
enough
to
be
called
a
river.
Sometimes
this
river
comes
to
a
large
hollow
in
the
land
and
there
the
water
gathers
and
forms
a
lake;
but
still
at
the
lower
end
of
this
lake
out
it
comes
again,
forming
a
new
river,
and
growing
and
growing
by
receiving
fresh
streams
until
at
last
it
reaches
the
sea.
The
River
Thames,
which
you
all
know,
and
whose
course
you
will
find
clearly
described
in
Mr.
Huxley's
'Physiography,'
drains
in
this
way
no
less
than
one-seventh
of
the
whole
of
England.
All
the
rain
which
falls
in
Berkshire,
Oxfordshire,
Middlesex,
Hertfordshire,
Surrey,
the
north
of
Wiltshire
and
north-west
of
Kent,
the
south
of
Buckinghamshire
and
of
Gloucestershire,
finds
its
way
into
the
Thames;
making
an
area
of
6160
square
miles
over
which
every
rivulet
and
brook
trickle
down
to
the
one
great
river,
which
bears
them
to
the
ocean.
And
so
with
every
other
area
of
land
in
the
world
there
is
some
one
channel
towards
which
the
ground
on
all
sides
slopes
gently
down,
and
into
this
channel
all
the
water
will
run,
on
its
way
to
the
sea.
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