Rudolph Glossop and the rise of geotechnology : selected by Ronald E Williams

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Most are smooth barked and remarkably slim for their height, but 19 Rudolph Glossop and the Rise of GeotechnoloGy others, like the silk-cotton tree (haunted by the red-haired demon, Sasa Bonsam), have immense buttressed roots which support the bole to a height of 15 or 20 ft. The most striking contrast between subarctic and equatorial forest came as a surprise; it was the level of sound. In Canada there is almost perpetual silence, only broken by the tapping of a woodpecker or the plaintive little song of a treesparrow.

The peneplain was dissected by a young river system, which in places had cut down to unweathered rock. Thus the most likely place to find exposures was not on the hilltops, but in the beds of streams shallow enough to be explored by wading. There were outcrops on the surface of the peneplain, but these were small ‘inselbergs’, most of them no bigger than a really large haystack, and, as they were widely spaced, they were not easy to find in thick forest. It seemed reasonable to offer a modest reward to anyone who could guide us to them, but that failed.

He was a cadet in the Political Service who had suffered a nervous breakdown. Two older men, themselves going on leave, had volunteered to keep an eye on him; they had left him alone on deck for only a very few minutes, and he had slipped below to escape from that which haunted him. Next morning the Captain read the burial service, and his corpse slid overboard to join all those others scattered on the seabed between the Coast and the Channel. Later the old steamships were to be replaced by more modern diesels with the same names, such as Apapa and Accra, but by then white women were going to the Coast, there was deck tennis, and the whole atmosphere changed to that of a poor man’s Cunard.

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