Monday, November 14, 2011

What does this quote mean in plain (easy) english?- HUGH MILLER, “Old Red Sandstone”?

Steam boilers discharge into it their seething contents, and drains and sewers their fetid impurities; till at length it rolls on-here between tall dingy walls, there under precipices of red sandstone-considerable less a river than a flood of liquid manure.

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