NATURE STUDY. 



PUBIvISHKD UNDER THE AUSPICES OP THE 



Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Vol. IV. November, 1903. No. 6. 



Wearing Away the Continent. 



BY WILLIAM H, HUSE. 



Ever since the mountains were raised above the sea they 

 have been moving back ; from the day the continents were 

 made they have been coasting away to form new continents 

 on the ocean bottom. The elements work continually ; 

 nature is never still. The work of ocean waves is everlast- 

 ing and the observer is never weary. To watch the break- 

 ers dash without ceasing against the shore is to see one of 

 the best symbols of eternity. Their work is slow, but time 

 is long, and the task is accomplished at last. The ledge 

 gives way in time. 



In the September Nature Study, the frontispiece well 

 represented erosion, by the breaking away of blocks, made 

 by the joints in the ledge. Our illustration this month 

 shows a ledge worn away by the grinding of the bowlders 

 dashed up by storm waves. The scene is situated on the 

 end of Cape Neddick in York, Me. and is one of the many 

 attractions of that popular resort. The ledge is granite of 

 a peculiar composition, more easily weathered and decom- 



