" It is no longer a sorry forest of battered, snnken stumps." 



bridge, but left the piles, green and giown ovei' 

 ■with moss, standing with their heads just abo^'e 

 flood-tide mark. In the tops of the piles are 

 holes, bored to pass lines through, or left l)y 

 rusted bolts, and eaten vide by waA'es and wind. 

 Besides these there are a few genuine exca^a- 

 tions made by erratic woodpeckers. This whole 

 clump of water-logged jiiles has been colonized 

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