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top of the cliff drew my attention to where a block 

 of rock had become detached, and was pitching down 

 the slope. Finally, it shot over the edge and fell 

 clean to the rocks below, where it alighted with a 

 jarring crash. The birds appeared to apprehend at 

 once the nature of the occurrence whilst still 

 impending, for they sprang out with unusual alacrity 

 when a thin shower of earth fell preceding the 

 lumbering block. For how many thousand years 

 had that block been a debtor to nature for the 

 amount of force expended in heaving it up ? In any 

 case, the debt was cancelled in a moment, and she 

 received her own again without usury ; all very 

 obvious, no doubt, as set down here, but driven in 

 with a sharper moral as one sat there seeing a block 

 of the cliff head shot down for beach lumber. 



An old carrion crow was the evil genius of these 

 rocks. He used to sail out from above to 

 reconnoitre, but if there were any black-backed gulls 

 about, as was generally the case, they would cut up 

 the face of the cliff, and, dashing at him, drive him 

 off. Still, he must have found his visits profitable, 

 for he regularly returned, and I came upon spiked 

 cormorants' eggs lying at the top of the cliff, which 

 he must have obtained by force or guile. Carrion 

 crows are not uncommon on this coast, but nest, I 

 believe, mostly to the west of Red Wharf Bay. 



But the Caregonen Rocks, which are at the east 

 arm of Red Wharf Bay, formed the limit of our 

 work on this part of the coast. Upon our turning 



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