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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: perhaps on to the other shore, and was eaten out by the sea as the
land sank down.
But how does he know that the land sank?
Of that, he says, he is quite certain; and this is what he says.--
Suppose there was a glacier here, where we are sailing now: it
would end in an ice cliff, such as you have seen a picture of in
Captain Cook's Voyages, of which you are so fond. You recollect
the pictures of Christmas Sound and Possession Bay?
Oh yes, and pictures of Greenland and Spitzbergen too, with
glaciers in the sea.
Then icebergs would break off from that cliff, and carry all the
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