. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. 14 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN. W. W. Rathbone—Photo. TOADSTOOL ROCK winter and from heat in sum- mer. Situated near any large city, it would yield a small fortune as a dancing hall, always dry, always cool, but never cold. Along the curving cliff in which this cave is situated, in most places the softer rocks below have disappeared leaving an overhanging cliff. But close to the cave opening, the over- hanging cliff has fallen and lies a crumbling mass on the slope below leaving the new face of the cliff smooth and unweathered. Apparently these recent fall
. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. 14 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN. W. W. Rathbone—Photo. TOADSTOOL ROCK winter and from heat in sum- mer. Situated near any large city, it would yield a small fortune as a dancing hall, always dry, always cool, but never cold. Along the curving cliff in which this cave is situated, in most places the softer rocks below have disappeared leaving an overhanging cliff. But close to the cave opening, the over- hanging cliff has fallen and lies a crumbling mass on the slope below leaving the new face of the cliff smooth and unweathered. Apparently these recent falls were due to the earthquake of over a hundred years ago. And the trees have grown since the cliff broke away. In another nearby valley, an undercut cliff shelters livestock, a great assortment of farm machinery, and a winter's supply of corn fodder. Back over the ridge and on down Clarida Branch toward Bay Creek we pass toadstool formations imitating those in the Garden of the Gods, but mostly hidden in the thick brush. A balanced rock forty feet by fifty feet and thirty-five feet high stands on a triangular base only twenty by twenty by ten feet, but is too densely hidden by trees and shrubs to be photographed. Clarida Branch joins Bay Creek near the Belle Smith Spring. Bay Creek, after it leaves the hills and enters the old river valley, for thirty- three miles, is very sluggish and muddy and has a current up stream in flood time as mentioned before. A few hundred feet above where it is forded at the mount of Clarida Branch, the bank has a steep slope to one of the characteristic curving bluffs. At one place this bluff was deeply undercut as was the bluff at the "Sand Cave," at Clarida Spring, and at many other places near. In fact, a cave had formed. But the roof of the cave fell in and most of it was washed away so that the water from the slope above now falls over a new cliff further back and runs under a natural bridge whose arch is twenty-six feet wide, sixt
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