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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: that is, by rain, frost, and ice.
Water, and nothing else, has sawn out such a chasm as that through
which the ships run up to Bristol, between Leigh Wood and St.
Vincent's Rocks. Water, and nothing else, has shaped those peaks
of the Matterhorn, or the Weisshorn, or the Pic du Midi of the
Pyrenees, of which you have seen sketches and photographs. Just
so water might saw out Hartford Bridge Flat, if it had time
enough, into a labyrinth of valleys, and hills, and peaks standing
alone; as it has done already by Ambarrow, and Edgbarrow, and the
Folly Hill on the other side of the vale.
I see you are astonished at the notion that water can make Alps.
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