Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 230
et square, and five fcJtCftOACHMJUiTS OF IH£ S.LA. 2* feet in thickness, was removed from its bed fifty years ago, to adistance of thirty feet, and has since been twice turned over. The long continued and violent action of the surf, finally fretsaway the softer parts of islands, and nothing remains… … Dr. Hibbert. These fantastic shaped rocks, which are all that re-main of what was once an island covered with vegetation, arestriking monuments of that incessant change which, continually,though silently and almost unnoticed, is going on, but whosefinal effects are of the most magnificent…
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