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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: -"What had the rattling of the lid of the kettle to do with
Hartford Bridge Flat being lifted out of the ancient sea?"
The answer to the riddle, I believe, is--Steam has done both. The
lid of the kettle rattles, because the expanding steam escapes in
little jets, and so causes a LID-QUAKE. Now suppose that there
was steam under the earth trying to escape, and the earth in one
place was loose and yet hard, as the lid of the kettle is loose
and yet hard, with cracks in it, it may be, like the crack between
the edge of the lid and the edge of the kettle itself: might not
the steam try to escape through the cracks, and rattle the surface
of the earth, and so cause an EARTHQUAKE?
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