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Scherman, you'll have to represent us to Mrs. Linceford, and persuade her to join us to Feather-Cap. And be sure you get the 'little red'!" "It'll be all the worse for Graywacke, if we're kept in and sent off early," she continued, sotto voce, to her companions, as they turned away. "My! what has that boy got?"
Fancy those girls, Nell, with a whole half-wing of the hotel to themselves, and Sin Saxon in the midst!" "Poor 'Graywacke' in the midst, you mean," said Nell. "Like a respectable old grimalkin at the mercy of a crowd of boys and a tin kettle," added Jeannie, laughing. "I've no doubt she's a very nice person, too.
I only hope, if I come across her, I mayn't call her Graywacke to her face," said Mrs. Linceford. "Just what you'll be morally sure to do, Augusta!"
And then we walked to the upper village and bought that extraordinary chintz, and frilled and cushioned our trunks into ottomans, and curtained the dress-hooks; and Lucinda got us a rocking-chair, and Maud came in with me to sleep, and we kept our extra pillows, and we should be comfortable as queens if it wasn't for Graywacke." "Now, Sin Saxon, you know Graywacke is just the life of the house.
"We're sure to get the better of Graywacke, and why not anticipate?" "Graywacke?" said Jeannie Hadden. "Is that a name? It sounds like the side of a mountain." "And acts like one," rejoined Sin Saxon. "Won't budge. But it isn't her name, exactly, only Saxon for Craydocke; suggestive of obstinacy and the Old Silurian, an ancient maiden who infests our half the wing.
Sometimes I lost the prospector's trail in a rock-choked torrent and picked it up again, where it hung like a thin ribbon on a heather-grown slope; but it never wound or doubled if there was foothold ahead. It led up stairs of graywacke, along the brink of slaty cliffs that dropped sheer, hundreds of feet to the stream below.
"Miss Graywacke, I believe?" she said, and instantly knew the dreadful thing that she had done. "Exactly," said the lady, with an amused little smile. "Oh, I do beg your pardon," began Leslie, blushing all over. "No need, no need. Do you think I don't know what name I go by, behind my back?
The most exact observations prove that the method of cultivation must vary with the geognostical condition of the subsoil. In basalt, graywacke, porphyry, sandstone, limestone, &c., are certain elements indispensable to the growth of plants, and the presence of which renders them fertile.
When the term Silurian was given by Sir R. Murchison, in 1835, to the whole series, he considered the Stiper-Stones as the base of the Silurian system, but no fossil fauna had then been obtained, such as could alone enable the geologist to draw a line between this member of the series and the Llandeilo flags above, or a vast thickness of rock below, which was seen to form the Longmynd hills, and was called "unfossiliferous graywacke."
It was not until the year 1836 that Sir R. Murchison and Professor Sedgwick discovered that the culmiferous or anthracitic shales and sandstones of North Devon, several thousand feet thick, belonged to the coal, and that the beds below them, which are of still greater thickness, and which, like the carboniferous strata, had been confounded under the general name "graywacke," occupied a geological position corresponding to that of the Old Red Sandstone already described.
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