“‘Washing a hill away’ is a process employed by a
land-improvement company near Baltimore,” says _Indoors and
Out_. “The summit of a hill was to be lowered about nine
feet. The operations covered an area fifteen hundred feet long
and three hundred feet wide. From a stream near by water was
forced at eighty pounds pressure through eight-inch pipes to a
five-inch reducing nozzle and then against the wall of earth.
This fell in cartloads every few minutes, and so thin was it,
with the water added, as to be easily conveyed through pipes to
an abandoned pond which the company wished to fill as a part of
the improvement plans.” (Text.)
The streams of Christian influence are leveling society by washing away
human pride and building up the humble.
(1779)
=Levity=--See GRAVITY.