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action, and it requires wary walking, with your eyes 

 on the ground, to avoid, perhaps, a broken leg. The 

 Oolites must have suffered in the same way, especially 

 where not covered by Boulder-clay; for, it must be 

 remembered, that such effects are chiefly the result of 

 the exposure of limestones on the actual surface of the 

 ground. 



Let me, in concluding this chapter, once more 

 recall to the mind of the half-instructed reader that the 

 sea is the final recipient of all invisible solutions and of 

 all visible sentiments. 



All mountain rivers lost, in the wide home 

 Of thy capacious bosom ever flow. 



Rain and rivers are the unwearied destroyers of all lands, 

 aided by the restless beating of the waves on rock-bound 

 coasts. These destroy but to reconstruct new strata, by 

 the upheaval of which future lands shall rise. As the 

 Ocean is now, so has it been throughout all authentic 

 geological history, and 



Its voice mysterious, which whoso hears, 



Must think of what will be, and what has been 



is always present to the mind of the physical geologist, 

 ever since the time when John Eay, in 1691, published 

 his far-seeing work ' On the Wisdom of Grod manifested 

 in the Works of Creation.' 



