THE MAKING OF MOUNTAINS 45 



denuded and dissected. Yet the distinction of the two 

 kinds is in typical cases quite clear. The second 

 caution is that it may be practically injudicious to 

 inform the patriotic inhabitant of either the Scots 

 Highlands or the Southern Highlands, of either the 

 Lake District or Wales, that his mountains are not 

 genuine or Original mountains at all, but only the 

 outcome of the carving out of plateaus. Considerable 

 preparation is sometimes necessary to make a scientific 

 fact palatable. 



