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Updated: July 9, 2025
Taking lamps in our hands and keeping out of the way of the trucks, we will first throw the light on the roof, which is made of shale or hardened clay.
There would be no machines for manufacturing or for agriculture, not even a spade to dig a garden. Everybody would be out of work. If you wish to see how it would seem, try for an hour to use nothing that is of iron or has been made by using iron. Where did rocks come from? Some were deposited in water, like limestone and like the shale and sandstone that lie over the strata of coal.
Leaving the boat, the boys mounted the pile of shale and were soon making their way up the rugged face of the shaft in the direction of the level, which ran along above the one now being flooded. "Can you find your way out of this dump, now?" asked Will as the boys stood with their chums at the end of the long passage.
I made an attempt to come up with him; but in my haste trod upon a piece of loose shale, which, sliding beneath me, threw me upon the ground, and badly wounded my right foot, so that for the moment I could proceed no further.
He escaped from Berber at night, three weeks ago. The story is curious, eh?" "And the letter still remains in the wall? It is curious. Perhaps the man was telling lies." "He had the chain mark on his ankles," said Durrance. The cavalcade turned to the left into the hills on the northern side of the plateau, and climbed again over shale.
Thus was Edward Bumpus severed and rolled from the ancestral ledge, from the firm granite of seemingly stable and lasting things, into shifting shale; surrounded by fragments of cliffs from distant lands he had never seen. Thus, at five and fifty, he found himself gate-keeper of the leviathan Chippering Mill in the city of Hampton.
He shouted a warning to Bucks, who, not understanding, plunged straight over the declivity and sprawled into the wash-out with the bear after him. Catching his rifle, the boy scrambled to his feet with his pursuer less than twenty feet away. Between the two there was only open ground, and the bear was scrambling for Bucks when Scuffy sprang down the shale bank and confronted the enemy.
Here the force of the falling water is sufficient to move about the fallen blocks of limestone and use them in the excavation of the shale of the bed.
The clay and the upper layers of the shale beneath it are reddish or yellow, while in many cases the color of the unaltered rock beneath is blue. THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS. The three kinds of layered rocks whose acquaintance we have made sandstone, limestone, and shale are the leading types of the great group of stratified, or sedimentary, rocks.
He could hear their voices on the other side. Now was his chance. On tiptoe he crept off the betraying shingle, and began to climb, the scent-bottle in his mouth. A recent fall of cliff helped him, making a ramp. Up it he went, a tiny trickle of dislodged shale dribbling away beneath his feet. At the top of the fall a mat of weeds had grown. On this he stayed.
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