The Pine-tree coast . than the certainty of being alone ? In anywidely known spot you are in a constant dread of an incursion of tourists ;the hallooing of guides, the loud-voiced admiration, the bustle, whether of fast-ening horses, or of unpacking provisions, or of airing opinions, all disturbthe budding sensation; civilization recovers its hold upon you. But here,what security and what silence ! nothing that recalls man; the landscape is justwhat it has been these six thousand years. The path zig-zags in and out in order to turn the tremendous breaches madeat intervals in the side of the cl
The Pine-tree coast . than the certainty of being alone ? In anywidely known spot you are in a constant dread of an incursion of tourists ;the hallooing of guides, the loud-voiced admiration, the bustle, whether of fast-ening horses, or of unpacking provisions, or of airing opinions, all disturbthe budding sensation; civilization recovers its hold upon you. But here,what security and what silence ! nothing that recalls man; the landscape is justwhat it has been these six thousand years. The path zig-zags in and out in order to turn the tremendous breaches madeat intervals in the side of the cliffs. The shore is therefore notched like theteeth of a saw. Now a headland starts out before you; now you are coasting theedge of a deep and wild gorge, with your back turned to the ocean; or if just alittle venturesome, you may be edging your way cautiously out, in order to lookover the brink into the pit below, though not until after taking firm grasp ofsome friendly sapling. But one such look will usually A Kl \ ACROSS GRAND ;;77 The peculiar form of this shore is such as to make the walk around it bnotable experience. I have explained that, the cliffs do not extend in a regularline at all. as one might Buppose, but at Bhort intervals they bulge out grielephantine heads, all Glowing down with savage grace into tin- foaming surfbeneath. Some show a scarce broken front, some are shattered as il by a Cyclo-pean hammer. And there they stand braced to meet tin- thunderous roll of theAtlant Lc ground-swell. These protruding masses form again deep gorges. At tin- bottom there mhe a little strip of beach, hut more often a heaped-up wall formed of blocks ofstone that have come crashing down from above, followed by an avalanche tloosened earth. The trees that creep down into these gorges are stunted, mBhapen, and interlaced, as if for mutual support. But trees are dwarfed, every-thing is dwarfed, by comparison with the cliffs. Then again, the peculiarstructure of the
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