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Deucalion ; also, The King of the golden river ; The eagle's nest ; Arrows of the chace (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. King of the Golden River, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Eagle's nest, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Arrows of the chace · Boston : Aldine Book Pub. · leaf 34

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see in this section,violently contorted; if not contorted, they are at least soirregular in the bedding that you cant in general find a sur-face of a furlong square which will not either by its depres-sion, or projection, catch and notch into the one above it, soas to prevent its sliding. Also the… … Fig. 2. unless it comes down in a mass. But their straight bed-ding, as compared with the twisted limestone, is the notablestpoint in them ; and see how very many difficulties are gath-ered in the difference. The crushed masses of limestone aresupposed to have been wrinkled together by the lateral…

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