THE GIAM'S CAUSEWAY-ONE OF THE MOST AVONDERFUL EXAMPLES OF 

 NATURE'S MASONRY. 



NATURES MASONRY 



By F. MARTIN DUNCAN, F.R.P.S. 



With Photographs by the Author 



IX all the seasons and throughout all 

 ages Nature is for ever at work 

 hewing and carving the face of the 

 hills. She is indeed a mighty mason, and 

 her tools are the rain and snow, the ice 

 and frost, flowing stream, and beating 

 waves. Nothing can be more dehghtful 

 during our hohda}' rambles and country 

 walks than to try and learn something 

 about the ways in which Nature uses 

 these tools. 



During our annual visit to the sea we 

 have an opportunity of observing how 

 she utilises rain and frost and the storm- 



tossed waves in her masonry of the shore. 

 A morning ramble along the shore from 

 Bournemouth towards Poole will give us 

 some insight into the way she carves the 

 sand cliffs, using here for her principal 

 tools rain and the inland springs. The 

 sandy shore gently slopes upward from 

 the laughing waters of a summer sea to 

 the base of the brown cliffs, and as we 

 look at them we see the rocks chiselled 

 into buttresses and terraces, while here 

 and there the face of the cliff is deeply 

 scored. At the base of the cliff is a loose 

 accumulation of fragments that have 



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