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ment. The beach between the cliff-foot and the water is here 

 quite narrow, usually less than 6 feet in width. Above and below 

 the two-loop bars in question the shore line is slightly sinuous, 

 but the beach is of very uniform width. Between the two bars 

 there is a stretch of 78 feet where there is not enough beach 

 gravel to cover the bed-rock, and the cliff rises directly from the 

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Fig. 3. 



water, here about a foot in depth at the shore line. The south 

 loop is 22Q feet in length, and the north one 280 feet. The north 

 loop holds a long, narrow little pond between it and the old 

 shore. The low area between the south bar and the old shore 

 was above present water level, and was nearly filled with gravel. 

 The sudden departure from the normal conditions along this 

 shore to form these bars is difficult of explanation. In the pres- 



FiG. 4. — Foreland near Allison's dock, May 22, 1903. 



ent instance it is possible that a small landslip from the cliff may 

 have temporarily changed the shore line in such a way as to 

 necessitate readjustment by the waves. On the other hand, they 

 may have been formed under the action of the waves alone on 

 the normal shore line, under conditions referred to below in a 

 general discussion of the origin of the forms here described. In 

 this latter case they represent initial stages of a form which 

 reaches its perfection in the V terrace and V bar. 



3. Terrace and bar 7iear Allisojis wharf. — On the north shore 

 of the eastern section of the bay at Allison's dock, there is a sea- 



