... came the chemical action of nature; in the depths of the seas the vegetable accumulations first became peat; then, acted upon by gener-ated gases and the heat of fermentation, they underwent a ... I was won-dering that I was no longer thirsty, and I was for asking for the reason. The answer came in the murmuring of the stream at my feet.We breakfasted, and drank of this excellent chalybeate ... kind of exercise.This well, or abyss, was a narrow cleft in the mass of the granite, calledby geologists a ‘fault,’ and caused by the unequal cooling of the globe of the earth. If it had at one...