Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 409
chffs forty or fifty feet high,and fringed with great masses of fallenrock. I was scarce a quarter of a mile to seaward, andit was my first thought to paddle in and land. That notion was soon given over. Among the fallenrocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud rever-berations, heavy sprays… … The Cruise of the Coracle 367 Nor was that all; for crawling together on flat tablesof rock, or letting themselves drop into the sea withloud reports, I beheld huge slimy monsters — soft snails,as it were, of incredible bigness — two or three scoreof them together, making the rocks to echo with…
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