24 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



Shot out of a volcano? As you seem deter- 

 mined to have a prodigy, it may as well be a 

 sufficiently huge one. 



Well — these stones lie altogether ; and a volcano 

 would liave hardly made so compact a shot, not 

 being in the habit of using Eley's wire cartridges. 

 Our next hope of a solution lies in John Jones, 

 who carried up the coracle. Hail him, and ask 

 him what is on the top of that cliff ... So? 

 "Plainshe and pogshe, and another Llyn." Veiy 

 good. Now, does it not strike you that this whole 

 cliff has a remarkably smooth and plastered look, 

 like a hare's run up an earthbank? And do you 

 not see that it is polished thus, only over the lake ? 

 that as soon as the cliff abuts on the downs right 

 and left, it forms pinnacles, caves, broken angular 

 boulders ? Syenite usually does so in our damp 

 climate, from the "weathering" effect of frost and 

 rain : why has it not done so over the lake ? On 

 that part something (giants perhaps) has been 

 scrambling up or down on a very large scale, and 

 so rubbed off every corner which was inclined to 



