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CURIOUS SAND-BANKS.
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to bend tlie aqueduct down to the required spot, but he
does this very speedily by lifting each log at one end
and giving it the required inclination. The water now
fills his wooden pool, and with a long wooden scoop he
flings a refreshing shower far and wide upon the rye,
oats, barley, pasture grass, or potatoes. Every foot of
the field is scrupulously watered thus, and when a
number of the waterers are at work, the bright
semicircles of sparkling drops flying through the air in
every direction make a cheerful and pleasing sight for
the pedestrian.
Beyond the station above Laurgaard, where the
valley widens again, there are curious sand-banks
extending on both sides of the valley. These are cut
through by the lateral streams, and have the
appearance of the earthworks of a huge fortification. A head
wind was blowing, which carried dense dust-clouds with
it, and I pitied those travellers who are riding in
carrioles, seated so low, and at just the right distance
behind the horse to catch the main body of dust that
he kicks up.
The river must formerly have spread over this
valley, depositing the sand where its waters were
(puiescent. At the same time, it was cutting its way
down the gorge above Laurgaard, till it drained the
lake its widened waters formed, and reduced itself to
its present channel.
I examined the sand, but found no shells in it. It is
very fine and uniform, in all respects resembling the
sand that is commonly seen to whiten the streams that
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