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the feet and make hob-nailed boots a necessity of 

 Station comfort. Thus shod and equipped with a 

 good hammer, one starts out to investigate this 

 bottommost rock of the shore. 



Through the woods eastward to Providence 

 Cove one passes on the w^ay a beautiful cascade 

 formed where a small stream crosses a hard 

 ridge of shale, and also several rock masses 

 which show, beneath the accumulations of grow- 

 ing and decaying vegetation, the existence every- 

 where of this omnipresent shale. On clambering 

 down into a charming glen formed where a 

 mountain stream for ages has been plunging 

 into the river and the sea, the same rocks are 

 found but with a somewhat changed structure. 

 One is in Providence Cove. 



Here the rocks are compact, hardened 

 throughout and made crystalline until they ring 

 under the stroke of the hammer. They stand 

 out in high, almost vertical walls, instead of re- 

 clining as a sloping shore. Where fragments 

 loosen and fall into the sea under the action of 

 the waves, they wear into strikingly symmet- 

 rical pebbles and boulders. Glancing across the 



