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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: these glens, of which you are so fond, was settled by the
particular order in which Madam How laid down the gravel and sand
and mud at the bottom of the sea, ages and ages ago. This is what
I told you, that the least thing that Madam How does to-day may
take effect hundreds and thousands of years hence.
But I must tell you I think there was a time when this glen was of
a very different shape from what it is now; and I dare say,
according to your notions, of a much prettier shape. It was once
just like one of those Chines which we used to see at Bournemouth.
You recollect them? How there was a narrow gap in the cliff of
striped sands and gravels; and out of the mouth of that gap, only
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