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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: there a tunnel as there is at Box and at Micheldever?
No. Something much prettier than a tunnel and something which
took a great many years longer in making. We shall soon meet with
a very remarkable and famous old gentleman, who is a great adept
at digging, and at landscape gardening likewise; and he has dug
out a path for himself through the chalk, which we shall take the
liberty of using also. And his name, if you wish to know it, is
Father Thames.
I see him. What a great river!
Yes. Here he comes, gleaming and winding down from Oxford, over
the lowlands, past Wallingford; but where he is going to it is not
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