. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 4V3 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 61 " Pulpit Rock," on Ireland Island, is a good example of a detached pinnacle rock. (See figure 25.) It also shows well the irregular stratification of the aeolian limestone. Some of these pinnacles stand out some distance from the shore, on the flat reefs, showing Avhere an islet, or the shore cliff once sto
. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 4V3 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 61 " Pulpit Rock," on Ireland Island, is a good example of a detached pinnacle rock. (See figure 25.) It also shows well the irregular stratification of the aeolian limestone. Some of these pinnacles stand out some distance from the shore, on the flat reefs, showing Avhere an islet, or the shore cliff once stood, long Figure 25.—Pulpit Eock, Ireland Island. The famous North Rocks (figure 30) are pinnacles of this kind, standing on the outer reef, some eight miles from the north side of the islands. Thej^ stand on a broad platform of reef rock. They serve as monuments to mark the position of what was once a large and high island. (See Part III, ch. 23, and Geology.) In other cases, owing to the unequal hardness of the rock, and to the frequent existence of masses of unconsolidated sand in the lime- stone, the waves have eaten away these softer parts very rapidly, leaving the harder parts standing. This has sometimes resulted in the formation of natural arches or bridges, of which the double " natural arch " near Tucker's Town is a good example. (See plate Ixxxvii.) 9.— Cathedral Rocks. The Cathedral Rocks, or "Old Church Rocks" as they are often called, on the west side o£ Somerset Island, have been formed in a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Verrill, A. E. (Addison Emery), 1839-1926. New Haven, Conn. , The author
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