edge grating on the shore --

    at first gently nibbled and crumbled off, but at length heaving up

    and scattering its o a considerable

    before it came to a standstill.

    At lengttained t angle, and warm

    and rain and melt the sun,

    dispersing t, smiles on a c and

    raveller picks his

    to islet, cinkling

    rills and rivulets wer

    whey are bearing off.

    Feo observe the forms

    whe sides of a

    deep cut on to the

    village, a p very common on so large a scale, though

    t material must have

    been greatly multiplied since railroads ed.  terial

    was sand of every degree of fineness and of various rich colors,

    commonly mixed tle clay.   comes out in the

    spring, and even in a ter, to

    floimes bursting out the

    sno wo be seen before.

    Innumerable little streams overlap and interlace one her,

    exing a sort of , whe law of

    currents, and  of vegetation.  As it flo takes the

    forms of sappy leaves or vines, making

    or more in depthe

    laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you

    are reminded of coral, of leopards pa, of brains

    or lungs or bos of all kinds.  It is a truly

    grotesque vegetation, ed in

    bronze, a sort of arcectural foliage more ancient and typical

    table leaves;

    destined perances, to become a puzzle to

    future geologists.  t impressed me as if it were a