THE WAVE S TOOTH 



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Bays and 

 promntories. 

 how made. 



it. With a roof over all it might pass for an 

 ocean cave, formed by widening and deepening 

 a rock fissure, were it not for its enormous 

 length and depth. 



Time and tide and the wave's tooth, what 

 will they not accomplish ! The changes they 

 have wrought appear on every coast. Working 

 along the line of least resistance, working with 

 that diagonal thrust, the waves have carved out 

 many a rock-bound bay and left projecting into 

 the sea many a wedge-shaped promontory. The 

 promontory perhaps stands for years, facing 

 serenely seaward; but always growing a little 

 sharper at its point. Eventually a fissure ap- 

 pears back from the point, the water creeps in, 

 gnaws through, and separates the point from 

 its parent body. In a few years there is a 

 core of hard rock, a needle, a pinnacle, a lonely 

 tower, standing in the sea. Winds and waves 

 carve it into fantastic forms, its inaccessibility 

 make it weird and mysterious; and presently it 

 is called by the 'long-shore people the Devil's 

 Pulpit or Satan's Nose or The Old Man of the 

 Sea. For many years this outlier of the shore 

 stands above the tides, growing thinner and 

 thinner each year, until perhaps during some 

 violent winter storm it falls with a crash into 

 the water. Immediately the waves begin clear- 



Towers 

 along shore. 



