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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: a few fragments happen to lie close together. In a valle
south of Berkeley Sound, which some of our party calle
the "great valley of fragments," it was necessary to cros
an uninterrupted band half a mile wide, by jumping fro
one pointed stone to another. So large were the fragments
that being overtaken by a shower of rain, I readily foun
shelter beneath one of them.
Their little inclination is the most remarkable circumstance
in these "streams of stones." On the hill-sides I hav
seen them sloping at an angle of ten degrees with the horizon
but in some of the level, broad-bottomed valleys, the
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