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Also he knew when to let go There was a flash the rock splintering crash of echo, the whinnying scream and leap of the horse shot by the falling weapon Rider and beast hurtled backwards, the man's foot caught to one stirrup There was the crackling of slate and shale the gash and rasp and wrench of loosening rock masses sliding down down down and yet down, with knocking echoes; with laughter of terrified scream from the echo rock across the gorge pound and plunge from ledge to ledge the horse's body turning twice as it struck and bounced out a cloud of dust the shout, the blasphemy, the cry of rage, then the shrill scream of death terror that echoed and echoed The old man looked down!
It runs in a deep glen, the sides of which are almost five hundred yards of slope, and rocky, the rocks being hardened calcareous tufa lying on clay shale and sandstone below, with a capping of ferruginous conglomerate. The scenery would have been very pleasing, but fever took away much of the joy of life, and severe daily intermittents rendered me very weak and always glad to recline.
The ground was a bog, and as fast as earth was tipped in at the top it bulged out at the bottom. When, after great labour, this difficulty had been overcome, part of the embankment, fifty feet in height, which contained alum shale, decomposed, and spontaneous combustion ensued.
We saw the fresh track of a horse this evening in the road near our camp which the indians supposed to be a Shale spye. we killed a prarie hen with the short and pointed tail she had a number of young which could just fly.
Whatever fuel he wanted, all he had to eat, everything he needed, had to be carried up this slippery ascent by him. Down the shale slide he went when short of provisions, and over the marshes to this or that farm and demanded or carried off, sometimes a sheep, sometimes curds, dried fish in a word what he required.
The work of excavation has not been an extremely great one, even with the imperfect implements that must have been used, as the shale is for the most part soft and friable. A hard stratum served as a floor, and projecting in many places made a narrow platform by which the inhabitants were enabled to pass along from one house to another.
He turned beside her without a word. They went down the shingle to the edge of the sand and began to walk along the shore. For many seconds they walked in silence. Juliet's eyes were fixed upon the mighty outline of High Shale Point that stood out like a fortress, dark, impregnable, against the calm of the evening sky. Her companion sauntered beside her, his hands behind him.
Limestone calcines in a heat exceeding 1000° F., and therefore it cannot be used in fireproof construction. Soft rock, like slate or shale or soft sandstone, will not answer because it is not strong enough. Gravel is always hard. If you look at a cut in a gravel bank, you will usually see strata of sand and then strata of rounded pebbles of different sizes.
The latter filled the claim, as well as several of those adjoining it, to a depth, as it turned out, of between forty and fifty feet. Below the shale the ground proved to be rich enough. But within a few weeks of the rush we sold this piece of ground for 40 pounds. However, our half claim in No. 9 Road paid very well indeed.
I entreat you not to send them away. We shall all be so grateful to your ladyship if you will overlook 'That will do, said Lady Shale decisively. 'I will merely say that the sooner you leave the lodge the better; and that you will do well never again to pass the gates of the Hall. You may go. Miss Rockett withdrew. Outside, the footman was awaiting her.
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