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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: they come from? All outside there is sea; and they could not
float over that.
Come, I say, and sit down on this bench, and I will tell you a
tale,--the story of the Old Atlantis, the sunken land in the far
West. Old Plato, the Greek, told legends of it, which you will
read some day; and now it seems as if those old legends had some
truth in them, after all. We are standing now on one of the last
remaining scraps of the old Atlantic land. Look down the bay. Do
you see far away, under, the mountains, little islands, long and
low?
Oh, yes.
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