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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: you will see as you get out of the station.
Why, we are above the tops of the houses.
Yes. We have been rising ever since we left Bristol; and you will
soon see why. Now we have laid in as much fruit as is safe for
you, and away we go.
Oh, what high hills over the town! And what beautiful stone
houses! Even the cottages are built of stone.
All that stone comes out of those high hills, into which we are
going now. It is called Bath-stone freestone, or oolite; and it
lies on the top of the lias, which we have just left. Here it is
marked F.
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