| Show A Hill 01 CIUII The schoil 1 lenr begins next week and tho pale cheap despised and set useful piece of chalk will one more come Into general ume II Is I noIS > rob able that UM III D thousand bmnng those mho UEe II on hID klold or In workshop or boudoir realize Its 1 strnnse lil ° tory the unraveling of vhlch through alt its complexities Is Ion I-on of the most difficult problems with whleh the science of tin present day Is I culled upon to deal Scientists tells us that each little toil of chalk In I In reality re-ality it clip of nn Irimense block that once fllloi on nrca i the xlze of the Can Unont of Iuropc and nt which eve n rt several gigantic fragments remain re-main each hundreds of ictiare tulhs In extent These Patches mo Mattered OPt the region lying between Ireland on tho west and China on the east und extending In the othr direction Iom SoIen In the nolth tu Ilcirtuorat In the south In the Brutish Isles the chalk Is I found In greatest perfection and coqtlnultj In tile east and south cast of England A sheet < of chalk more than 1000 feet In thickness tin dellies nil that portion of 3ngi and l Which Is I situated to the sntithiiut if n line f ranging th island I illipnillj from the North am a at mlorolloh Head to tho coast on tho I rnMlsh channel In nut This ennrtnc sciect ot chalk Is I tilted up ullklul or the meat unit II otru portions that dip tounrd it In 01 tho North no oro loully burled from right by man s 4 verlslng sands and clavs Vh r the edges of thi chalk Hour line upon the I spit th cliff wvnery Is I ltlklngly grand l arid beatilllul Ally on viho hall once Peen i the magnificent I ok of riambor ough still Beecily llOOd 1ie Jagged stacks or the Nedlc or the dizzy mass of fihakc ncntc cliff near Del > D-el can understand why the white cliffs of Albion tins grown Into a stock phrase This massive sheet of chalk appears again In France In many other parts of nurope as far fast as the Crlmon and epn In centrist Ala bond b-ond tile sea of Aral How far Itmas stretch westward Into what Is I now the Atlantic mas never be known but ehalk cliffs ot at least 200 feet In thickness I thick-ness are seen at Antrim In Ireland unit hooa I conspicuous formations tire found In Scotland In Argyle arid Abr I dealt There ran be little question that nil thfe now Isolated patches mere olive corintted In it continuous sheet which must therefore have occupied oc-cupied I a nunrrnclal nice about 3000 miles long by nearly 1000 broad an extent larger thin that ot the present continent of Europe |
