Henry Adams 



fast and doze in the shade till it grew 

 cool again ; but within very few days 

 King showed signs of coming to the 

 end of his interest in science and land- 

 scape. Even paradox failed to stim- 

 ulate him. Alarmed for fear of being 

 turned out on the hot world again, I 

 began to take a profound interest in 

 geology and to dispute every view he 

 held. Unluckily, he knew only too 

 well that I could not tell the differ- 

 ence between a trilobite and a land- 

 crab, and we disagreed entirely in re- 

 gard to a favorite theory of mine 

 that if we could get deep enough 

 down into the archaean rocks, we 

 should find President Eliot and the 

 whole Faculty of Harvard College, 

 besides all the geologists there ; but, 

 when at last I went to the length of 

 asserting with much temper that a 

 lump of coral was obviously a recent 

 lava, he lost interest even in dispute, 

 and threw me over. In fact King's 

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