EEKNY COMBES. 
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cliff by clinging to the small projections of the 
rock in a way which would astonish many an Alpine 
traveller. Then the stream, after resting awhile, 
again starts forward between huge masses of rock; 
again it falls, and again, till, surging white with 
foam, it reaches the rocky shore, to be beaten back 
against the cliffs whence it has fallen, by the wild 
waves of the Atlantic. 
