(Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller) (1864)
Campbell, J. F. (John Francis), 1822-1885 · (Edinburgh : s.n. · leaf 805
, streams musthave done to rocks, from the time when the first shower fell,and the first stream began to flow. So ancient river-marksought to be found on the oldest rocks, and these ought to re-semble modem river-marks. Clouds rise up from earth and sea. A river takes its rise inthe clouds, from… … RIVERS. 95 The steeper the mouutaiu, the straighter are its gorges ; thedeeper the trench dug by rain, the more rain-water tends togather in it; the water makes a path, and follows it, and itworks faster as the work grows deeper. The mark is like V- For this cause an ancient mountain, which has…
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