WHITE PEBBLE BAY. 320 



Such green sloping promontories, with precipitious 

 sides, seem characteristic of this part of the coast- 

 There are several which I know of, succeeding each 

 other at short intervals, just here : one of them bears 

 the name of Greenaway's Foot. They are all exactly 

 alike in structure and appearance ; so much so, that 

 it is almost impossible to distinguish them, except 

 by their mutual position, or by their relation to the 

 hills above. 



I walked down to the end, thinking that as the 

 slope had been so steep, I might find it easy to gain 

 the beach from the extremity. But no ; the precipice 

 was as abrupt and perpendicular here as anywhere, 

 and the sea still far below : wdiere a huge angular 

 rock of picturesque form raised its brown head out of 

 the clear greenish-blue depths. 



From near the middle of the western side, however, 

 a zigzag staircase of steps, rudely cut in the living 

 rock, leads down the face of the lofty cliff, to a 

 narrow cove of blue sand, quite inclosed by rocks ; 

 which, at least at the back and sides, are almost per- 

 pendicular, and two hundred and fifty feet in height. 

 By clambering over the piled masses that project into 

 the sea, I found myself in White Pebble Bay, an in- 

 dentation of more ample dimensions, strewn with large 

 rounded pebbles of white quartz, thick veins of which 

 are seen pervading the ridges of blue slate that run 

 along the beach. The slate, being softer than the 

 quartz, is more rapidly worn away by the action of 

 the waves and the weather ; and the latter is left pro- 

 jecting, until a heavier sea than ordinary breaks off frag- 

 ments, which by rolling soon acquire a rounded form. 



