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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: which geologists call the Bracklesham beds, from a place near the
New Forest; and in those beds there is a vein of clay, and through
that clay the water cannot get, as you have seen yourself when we
dug it out in the field below to puddle the pond-head; and very
good fun you thought it, and a very pretty mess you made of
yourself. Well: because the water cannot get though this clay,
and must go somewhere, it runs out continually along the top of
the clay, and as it runs undermines the bank, and brings down sand
and gravel continually for the next shower to wash into the stream
below.
Now think for one moment how wonderful it is that the shape of
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