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Excerpt from The Ancient Merrimack and Its Glaciers: In Aphelion Winter
We have seen the current voraciously take away sand and soil from one side of the stream, and at the same time gently deposit the like on the other side, and we have Seen river beds filled, the strata of sand and mud deposited one above the other, until after a few years they rise above the level of the stream and become permanent dry land, and vegetation grows thereon. The character of such formations is not unlike that of the river banks and terraces along the Merrimack, from its rise to the ocean. That these banks and terraces are the work of water, no one for a moment can question. But when we Speak simply of the action of water in producing these formations, we are not satisfied to stop here, for our belief goes further, and we seek to know the causes of these phenomena.
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