NONSUCH 



the terrestrial tides of ice ebbed and flowed, the 

 bottom of the sea hereabouts would seem by some 

 unprecedented extent of upheaval, to have been dry 

 land. 



At present Bermuda has nearly the same area as 

 Manhattan Island — about twenty square miles; 

 when the ocean was partly evaporated into ice it 

 multiplied this nearly twelve times, while a con- 

 servative estimate of dry land, if my mile and a half 

 deep beaches cannot be otherwise explained, would 

 give to Bermuda an area of almost six hundred 

 square miles. 



There seems no possible chance of the shells and 

 pebbles having rolled or fallen to these great depths 

 down such a gentle slope, and the fact of their being 

 the same as those from the West Indies gives the 

 whole matter great significance. 



In spite of all these new and exciting discoveries, 

 I still get sheer joy out of my first game. And to- 

 day when I walk on Nonsuch Beach, with the 

 storm's aftermath pounding on the sand, the small, 

 stranded green globes appeal to me not only with 

 their intrinsic beauty, but they recall the delight 

 that one of them gave, when it so fittingly ushered 

 into my imagination the dawn of the Third Day of 

 Creation — a matter of more than half a billion 

 years gone by. 



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