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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: right or wrong. Meanwhile, remember that those gullies too will
have been made by water.
And there is another way of "verifying my theory," as it is
called; in plain English, seeing if my guess holds good; that is,
to look at other valleys--not merely the valleys round here, but
valleys in clay, in chalk, in limestone, in the hard slate rock
such as you saw in Devonshire--and see whether my guess does not
hold good about them too; whether all of them, deep or shallow,
broad or narrow, rock or earth, may not have been all hollowed out
by running water. I am sure if you would do this you would find
something to amuse you, and something to instruct you, whenever
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