Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1871)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Orpington, Kent : G. Allen · leaf 291
miles long by two hundred feet thick, (a to b, in this figure,greatly exaggerates the proportion in depth,) of being pusheddown over a bed of rocks of any given probable outline—say c toD. Does he suppose it would adhere to them like a taperingleech, in the line given between c and d ? The third… … explaining what course the lines of lower motion, or subsidence,(in ice of the various depths roughly suggested by the dots) wouldfollow on any hypothesis; for, admitting even Professor Ramsaystheory, that the glacier cut its own bed—(though it would be justas rational to think that its own dish…
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