Down North and Up Along 
where they thunder against the walls of rock 
that hold them unrelentingly to their channel. 
From the top of the cliff we got a fine view 
down the channel, — of West Bay with its 
rocky sentinel of Cape Sharp in the fore- 
ground ; of Cape Split in the distance with its 
isolated peak encircled by the white-winged 
birds that continually fly about it ; and far away 
the distant headland of Cape d'Or, with Spen- 
cer's Island to remind us of Glooscap. Here 
and there on the water we saw sudden flashes 
of light that we could not account for, until we 
remembered the peeps we had seen on another 
part of Minas' shore, and then we knew the 
little silver-breasted birds were here also per- 
forming their marvellous evolutions. 
The headlands of this strange shore have all 
a peculiar interest. Blomidon and Partridge 
Island have the romance of their jewels. Cape 
Sharp and the distant Cape d'Or share with 
them in this, for they, too, like Partridge 
Island, stand in their majesty of red sandstone 
and crystal-bearing trap, on the edge of the 
carboniferous coast. They have the same 
formation as Blomidon, and yield their treas- 
ures to the seeker. 
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