[Hardy-l] comprehension nano-puzzle in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Hi Royd -

Yes it reads oddly but it's correct (according to my Dolin edition). If you 
refer back to previous  para where Tess is "standing on a carpeted level" 
it become clearer. IE: That over the ages that carpeted level has been 
created by the river  (bringing in "particles") debris  --- - -washed down 
from the heights of Blackmoor to create "all this horizontal land."  So - 
the latter is created by particles - over the ages.!  Very Hardyan really --

Does that make better sense?

Besties
Rosemarie .

xAt 08:38 AM 9/6/2008, Royd Whitlock wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Just re-reading Tess for the umpteenth time and noticed I didn't quite 
>understand a small piece of text:  Ch. XVI, Phase The Third, p. 122 (about 
>20th para.) in the 1998 Riquelme edition.
>
>The river had stolen from the higher tracts and brought in particles to 
>the vale all this horizontal land; ... .
>
>To fit my (modern?) ear should I insert, say, 'along' after all 
>?  Otherwise my brain keeps wanting to kick out the preceding the and make 
>vale a verb!!
>
>Any comments or cures around, please?
>
>Royd Whitlock