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Show "Rocking Stones" Are Credited to Glaciers How did the Bowder stone in Bor-rowdale Bor-rowdale get to Its present position? How did the many "perched bowlders" and "rocking stones" hundreds of tqis in weight, yet . poised sq lishtlv that a human, baud can move them, get Into these peculiar positions? They were gently deposited by melting Ice, as gently as ever mother j Inid her baby to rest In Its cradle. For ice is the king of dumpers, and the former presence of glaciers accounts ac-counts fpr ali the erratic bowlders In the world, says London Answers. Some of these curious rocks are of tremendous size. The biggest in England Eng-land Is the Bowder stone, but there Is ; one In Switzerland,, far away from I any present-day glacier, which weighs i 3,000 tons and contains 45,000 cubic- feet of rock. j And visitors to the Alps can see the same processes at work today, as huge rocks, which no traction engine could haul, are borne along very slowly but nevertheless very surely on the sur- j face of the glaciers. |