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time in the condition of hasty-pudding heated to 

 some 800 degrees of Fahrenheit, and in that con- 

 dition shoved their way up somewhere or other 

 through these slates. But where ? whence on earth 

 did these Syenite pebbles come? Let us walk 

 round to the cliff on the opposite side and see. 

 It is worth while ; for even if my guess be wrong, 

 there is good spinning with a brass minnow round 

 the angles of the rocks. 



Now see. Between the cliff-foot and the sloping 

 down is a crack, ending in a gully ; the nearer side 

 is of slate, and the further side, the cliff itself, is 

 — why, the whole cliff is composed of the very 

 same stone as the pebble ridge ! 



!N"ow, my good friend, how did those pebbles get 

 three hundred yards across the lake? Hundreds 

 of tons, some of them three feet long : who carried 

 them across? The old C}Tiiry were not likely to 

 amuse themselves by making such a breakwater up 

 here in No-man's-land, two thousand feet above the 

 sea : but somebody, or something, must have car- 

 ried them ; for stones do not fly, nor swim either. 



