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so as to leave the ridge between these rivulets.
This was my earliest impression - though I have little reliance on it now.
2nd There are off the East and South coasts of England, sub-marine ridges or banks of sand & gravel very much resembling the Kaims in length and height. off Garmouth & off Portland, there are many such - being formed by a peculiar action of the tides & currents & breakers.
To a similar cause, when the greater part of our Island was under the sea, the formation of the Kaims may be owing.
This is the theory which appears to me most probable, and which I believe is more fully explained by me in my Geological account