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structure suggests, and as a synclinal burst demands, may be 

 gradually revealed by denudation; displayed, perhaps, with under- 

 ground drainage in the fashion of an hour-glass ; and you have the 

 possibilities of one of these tiny basins, with no violation of proba- 

 bilities, and in accordance with a rule which shews the localization 

 of Lake-basins no longer as a work of hazard, but as an exemplifi- 

 cation of a law of Nature. Then let the glaciers push and lift out 

 the loose blocks, as we know they can ; and crush in what they 

 cannot push out, as we know they must, — and you have a form of 

 glacial action much more suited to the purpose of creating these 

 minor basins, than glacial erosion. 



And if Candlestick Moss can have been so created, why not 

 Loughrigg Tarn ? and if Loughrigg Tarn, why not Windermere ? 



