Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . Dee, more than a thousand feet below you; and in thecentre of the cord, where the arrow would be fitted in,stands Balmoral, with its Castle, and its Gardens, andits Park, and pleasant cottages and homesteads allaround. And when you have looked at the beautifulamphitheatre of forest at your feet, and looked too atthe great mountains to the westward, and Benaun, andBenna-buird and Benna-muicdhui, with their bright THE ICE-PLOUGH 95 patches of eternal snow, I should advise you to look atthe rock on which you stand, and see wha
Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . Dee, more than a thousand feet below you; and in thecentre of the cord, where the arrow would be fitted in,stands Balmoral, with its Castle, and its Gardens, andits Park, and pleasant cottages and homesteads allaround. And when you have looked at the beautifulamphitheatre of forest at your feet, and looked too atthe great mountains to the westward, and Benaun, andBenna-buird and Benna-muicdhui, with their bright THE ICE-PLOUGH 95 patches of eternal snow, I should advise you to look atthe rock on which you stand, and see what you seethere. And you will see that on the side of the Coilestowards Lochnagar, and between the knolls of them,are scattered streams, as it were, of great round boulderstones—which are not serpentine, but granite from thetop of Lochnagar, five miles away. And yoa will see. that the knolls of serpentine rock, or at least theirbacks and shoulders towards Lochnagar, are all smoothedand polished till they are as round as the backs of sheep, roches moutonnees, as the French call ice-polishedrocks ; and then, if you understand what that means,you will say, as I said, I am perfectly certain thatthis great basin between me and Lochnagar, which isnow 3000 feet deep of empty air was once filled up 96 MADAM HOW -AND LADY WHY chap. with ice to the height of the hills on which I stand—about 1700 feet high—and that that ice ran over intoGlen Muick, between these pretty knolls, and coveredthe ground where Birk Hall now stands. And more:—When you see growing on thoseknolls of serpentine a few pretty little Alpine plants,which have no business down there so low, you willhave a fair right to say, as I said, The seeds of theseplants were brought by the ice ages and ages sincefrom off the mountain range of Lochnagar, and lefthere, nestling among the rocks, to found a
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