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through the split, but examination shows the water has been cutting
its channel. There is one theory which will stand till the next one

comes along, for science, as the
farmer said of his steer, is ‘an
uneasy crittur.’ We will suppose
the river to be running across
the country, its surface not espec-
ially broken, when one of those
changes may have taken place of
which we have evidence, a wrink-
ling of the surface through ‘the
contracting or shriveling of the
earth” The wrinkle may be along
one but not high enough to turn
the river from its course, which
chafes against this little elevation
and rubs its way through it. What
now if that process goes on, the
‘wrinkle’ rising, but no faster
than the water can cut its way?
At last, you have a mountain-
range going across the country,
and a river flowing in a deep
mountain-cut or cafion. Prof. Pow-
ell says:

“¢The mountains were not
thrust up as peaks, but a great

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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block was slowly lifted, and from this the mountains were carved by the

clouds — patient artists, who take what time may be necessary for

their work. We speak of mountains forming clouds about their tops;