This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...waves has something of the effect upon the shore that the running stream has upon its banks. It not only has cutting and wearing power, but it makes currents which carry off what is cut away. The greatest wear of the waves is, naturally, where the rock is the softest. A hard quality of rock--so hard ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...waves has something of the effect upon the shore that the running stream has upon its banks. It not only has cutting and wearing power, but it makes currents which carry off what is cut away. The greatest wear of the waves is, naturally, where the rock is the softest. A hard quality of rock--so hard that it has endured--usually appears as the armored prow of every project ing cape or V-shaped promontory that stretches out into the sea. It is the outlying guard, and so long as it stands it protects what is behind it. When the sea finally wears away the point it is likely to leave a sunken base but a few feet below the surface, over which the waves break in spray; or perhaps there remains one of those fantastic pinnacles or pillars, usually called Devil's Pulpits, which may be seen along almost any rocky coast. At times again, waves wearing upon a soft portion of a rock hollow out caverns or perhaps passages clear through the promontory, into which the water rushes and issues on the other side in a tumult of spray. When the supporting sides of the cavern are of sturdy material, the roof may remain after the rest of the promontory has been eaten through, in which case we have the natural bridge or arch--a not infrequent sight on rocky coasts, and certainly a picturesque one. A more common way, however, of wearing the rock is by the water following the seams and cleavages opened by frost. The savage thrust of the sea through these cracks sometimes results in the "spoutinghorn," which flings up its jet of foam with great force, and under sunlight with surprising beauty of effect. Still more common is the The farming of grind of wave and bowlder on the base of the cliff, until it is so eaten away that the top heaved by frost falls...
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