[Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookMadam How and Lady Why CHAPTER XII--HOMEWARD BOUND 32/68
Here it is marked F. What steep hills, and cliffs too, and with quarries in them! What can have made them so steep? And what can have made this little narrow valley? Madam How's rain-spade from above, I suppose, and perhaps the sea gnawing at their feet below.
Those freestone hills once stretched high over our heads, and far away, I suppose, to the westward.
Now they are all gnawed out into cliffs,--indeed gnawed clean through in the bottom of the valley, where the famous hot springs break out in which people bathe. Is that why the place is called Bath? Of course.
But the Old Romans called the place Aquae Solis--the waters of the sun; and curious old Roman remains are found here, which we have not time to stop and see. Now look out at the pretty clear limestone stream running to meet us below, and the great limestone hills closing over us above.
How do you think we shall get out from among them? Shall we go over their tops? No.
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