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finally fall asleep. In the meanwhile, probably, 

 the breeze has come on, and there has been half- 

 an-hour's lively fishing curl ; and yon wake jnst 

 in time to see the last ripple of it sneaking off at 

 the other side of the lake, leaving all as dead-calm 

 as before. 



Now how much better, instead of falKng asleep, 

 to have walked quietly round the lake side, and 

 asked of your own brains and of nature the ques- 

 tion, "How did this lake come here? What does 

 it mean ? " 



It is a hole in the earth. True, but how was 

 the hole made? There must have been huge 

 forces at work to form such a chasm. Probably 

 the mountain was actually opened from within by 

 an earthquake ; and when the strata fell together 

 again, the portion at either end of the chasm, being 

 perhaps crushed together with greater force, re- 

 mained higher than the centre, and so the water 

 lodged between them. Perhaps it was formed thus. 

 You will at least agree that its formation must have 

 been a grand sight enough, and one during which a 



