text: " It is curious--yet a searcher after nature's truths ought to know as he is here told that waves may be anatomized and must be _chiseled_ and that mountains are and ought to be _built_ up rock by rock as a wall brick by brick; no easy task considering that there is a disagreeable "wind in every fissure and weight in every stone"--and that the aerial sky incapable to touch must be "modeled in masses