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THE FAIRY-LAND OF SCIENCE. 
falls on soft ground it makes small round holes in 
which it collects, and then sinks into the ground, 
forcing its way between the grains of earth. But 
you would hardly 
think that the 
beautiful pillars 
in Fig. 26 have 
been made entire- 
ly in this way 
by rain beating 
upon and soaking 
into the ground. 
Rather would you 
suppose theywere 
built by people 
who lived in very 
early times in the 
country in which 
they are found, 
as were the 
rude structures at 
Stonehenge, in 
England, erected 
by the old Druids 
before the ancient 
Britons were any- 
thing better than 
savages, or the 
strange edifices 
made in a similar manner of rough stones by the 
Peruvian Indians in South America before the white 
man came into this part of the world. 
FIG. 25. Earth pillar near Botzen, in 
the Tyrol, forty feet high. 
