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Scientific American, Vol. 79, No. 12 (1898) (1898)

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ur is soon surmounted the island had abrupt cliffs which breasted the sea, but is known as the isthmus. The average observer, con- and the turn into an>ther canon made ; and thus turn- in ages the rains in rushing down from the interior templating the steep cafions which lie about Avalon, ing and… … come filled with verdure. The sea has ground up the island at this portion, standing apparently directly result has shown the reverse, and one of the most pic- rock and formed beaches, and in this way the east over the water, 1,500 feet above it. From here a mag- turesque and attractive stage roads…

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