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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: amphitheatre, or half a one, with the limestone hills around us,
and the new red sandstone plastered on, as it were, round the
bottom of it inside.
But what is this high bit with E against it?
Those are the high hills round Bath, which we shall run through
soon. They are newer than the soil here; and they are (for an
exception) higher too; for they are so much harder than the soil
here, that the sea has not eaten them away, as it has all the
lowlands from Bristol right into the Somersetshire flats.
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There. We are off at last, and going to run home to Reading,
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