This Earth of ours - The making of mountains
Media
Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
- Title
- This Earth of ours - The making of mountains
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1937
- Subject
- Mountains.
- Rights
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- Abstract
- A long time ago when people believed in gods and goddesses there lived a hero named Hercules. Hercules in the course of his adventure performed many difficult tasks as getting the golden apples of Hesperides, cleaning the Aegean stables. Now when we want to describe a work to be accomplished as difficult to achieve we say it is a Herculean task. This leads us to describe the making of mountains as Herculean, if we may not say actually impossible.