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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: some places and less in others, according as the stone is harder
or softer, and according to the different direction of the rock-
beds (what we call their dip and strike); till at last it makes
one of those wonderful caverns about which you are so fond of
reading--such a cave as there actually is in the rocks of the
mountain of Whernside, fed by the swallow-holes around the
mountain-top; a cave hundreds of yards long, with halls, and
lakes, and waterfalls, and curtains and festoons of stalactite
which have dripped from the roof, and pillars of stalagmite which
have been built up on the floor below. These stalactites (those
tell me who have seen them) are among the most beautiful of all
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