Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . ged. Now look at England, and there you will seepatches at least of a great coral-reef which wasforming at the same time as that Irish one, and onwhich perhaps some of your schoolfellows have oftenstood. You have heard of St. Vincents Eocks atBristol, and the marble cliffs, 250 feet in height,covered in part with rich wood and rare flowers, andthe Avon running through the narrow gorge, and the 170 MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY chap. stately ships sailing far below your feet from Bristolto the Severn sea. And you may see, for here
Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . ged. Now look at England, and there you will seepatches at least of a great coral-reef which wasforming at the same time as that Irish one, and onwhich perhaps some of your schoolfellows have oftenstood. You have heard of St. Vincents Eocks atBristol, and the marble cliffs, 250 feet in height,covered in part with rich wood and rare flowers, andthe Avon running through the narrow gorge, and the 170 MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY chap. stately ships sailing far below your feet from Bristolto the Severn sea. And you may see, for here theyare, corals from St. Vincents Eocks, cut and polished,showing too that they also, like the Dudley limestone,are made up of corals and of coral-mud. Now, when-ever you see St. Vincents Eocks, as I suspect youvery soon will, recollect where you are, and use yourfancy, to paint for yourself a picture as strange asit is true. Fancy that those rocks are what theyonce were, a coral-reef close to the surface of a shallowsea. Fancy that there is no gorge of the Avon, no. wide Severn sea—for those were eaten out by waterages and ages afterwards. But picture to yourself thecoral sea reaching away to the north, to the foot of theWelsh mountains; and then fancy yourself, if youwiU, in a canoe, paddling up through the coral-reefs,north and still north, up the valley down which theSevern now flows, up through what is now Worcester-shire, then up through Staffordshire, then throughDerbyshire, into Yorkshire, and so on through Durhamand Northumberland, till your find yourself stoppedby the Ettrick hills in Scotland; whUe all to thewestward of you, where is now the greater part ofEngland, was open sea. You may say, if you knowanything of the geography of England, Impossible!Thaft would be to paddle over the tops of high IX THE COEAL-EEEF 171 mountains; over the top of the Peak in Derbyshire,over the top of High Craven and Whernside andPen-y-gent and Cross Fell, and to paddle too over theC
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