Down North and Up Along 
don and at points along North Mountain 
facing the Bay of Fundy, the tricksy frost 
gnomes have been at work loosening and split- 
ting away fragments of rock and even separat- 
ing large masses which the rain washes down 
the mountain side, or which fall in the form of 
land-slides, sometimes of considerable extent. 
These displaced masses are chiefly composed 
of the more friable amygdaloid. Down comes 
the shattered cliff, in its fall exposing its cav- 
erns of flashing crystals, while geodes and 
nodules of various sizes roll over the sands at 
the foot of the mountain, all to be finally 
washed away by the hungry tides, and those 
of Blomidon ground against the hard rock that 
forms the bottom of the sea basin, until in 
course of time the lovely crystals no doubt 
help to form the mud that makes the dike- 
lands fertile, and the Cornwallis farmers raise 
their hay and oats from jewels. 
But not all of Blomidon's jewels meet this 
fate. At low tide the sands at the foot of the 
headland are bare, and then come the treasure- 
hunters from Kingsport and Canning and all 
the neighbouring towns, and eagerly employ 
the time the tide allows them in gathering what 
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