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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: you saw the Chine at Bournemouth doing, would hollow itself out
slowly, as this glen is doing now. And one thing more would
happen,--when the sea ceased to gnaw at the foot of the cliffs
outside, and to carry away every stone and grain of sand which
fell from them, the cliffs would very soon cease to be cliffs; the
rain and the frost would still crumble them down, but the dirt
that fell would lie at their feet, and gradually make a slope of
dry land, far out where the shallow sea had been; and their tops,
instead of being steep as now, would become smooth and rounded;
and so at last, instead of two sharp walls of cliff at the Chine's
mouth, you might have --just what you have here at the mouth of
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