Partridge Island 
From the queer-looking pier on the shore 
with its theatrical setting of promontories and 
great sea basin one looks across at Partridge 
Island, which is not an island, but is connected 
by a broad curved beach with the mainland. 
It is a rocky headland rising straight out of the 
sea, its iron cliffs holding to their channel the 
wild tides that rush through between it and 
Blomidon. 
Beyond it across the water we saw Blomidon, 
its stern aspect softened by the distance and 
the sea-fogs, and beyond Blomidon stood out 
the distant form of Split. Through the opening 
between Partridge Island and the mainland we 
got a charming view of Cape Sharp, which is by 
no means as forbidding as its name, while away 
down the channel below Sharp lay Cape d'Or, 
though why its golden name we did not dis- 
cover. 
A tall-masted ship was anchored off the 
point of Cape Sharp when we first saw it from 
Partridge Island, giving just the needed touch 
to the composition of the picture. 
West Bay, which lay between us and Sharp, 
is the harbour sought by the boats of Minas 
when foul weather is expected. It is also the 
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