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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: summer comes, and the ice melts, the mud falls back into the place
where the ice had been, and covers up the gravel which was in the
ice. So, what between the grubbing of the ice-plough into the
mud, and the dirt which it leaves behind when it melts, the
stones, and sand, and mud upon the shore are jumbled up into
curious curved and twisted layers, exactly like those which Mr.
Trimmer saw in certain gravel-pits. And when I first read about
that, I said, "And exactly like what I have been seeing in every
gravel-pit round here, and trying to guess how they could have
been made by currents of water, and yet never could make any guess
which would do." But after that it was all explained to me; and I
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