. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . CRIST AAIND-MILLS AT EAST HAMPTON. 258 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. Ultima Thule of this ancient isle,Against whose heart the everlasting surge,Long travelling on, and ominous of beats! Thou liftst an eye of lightUnto the vexed and storm-tossed him safely to his home teach us, mid our sorest ills, to wearThe crown of mercy, and, with changeless eye,Lo
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . CRIST AAIND-MILLS AT EAST HAMPTON. 258 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. Ultima Thule of this ancient isle,Against whose heart the everlasting surge,Long travelling on, and ominous of beats! Thou liftst an eye of lightUnto the vexed and storm-tossed him safely to his home teach us, mid our sorest ills, to wearThe crown of mercy, and, with changeless eye,Look up to heaven. Eastern Long Island is undergoing many physical changes. In reports made to theState Legislature by W. W. Mather, more than thirty years ago, we find a full and in-. Moonlight on Shore. teresting description of the action of the sea on this peninsula, and also upon OrientPoint. The coast of Long Island, he says, on the south side, from Montauk Pointto Nepeague Beach, a distance of three miles, is constantly washing away by the actionof the heavy surf beyond the base of the cliffs, protected only by narrow shingle beachesof a few yards or rods in width. The pebbles and bowlders of the beaches serve as apartial protection to the cliffs during ordinary tides in calm weather ; but even then, bythe action of the surf as it tumbles upon the shore, they are continually grinding intosand and finer materials, and swept far away by the tidal currents. During storms andhigh tides, the surf breaks directly against the base of the cliffs; and as they are formed EASTERN LONG ISLAND. 259 only of loose materials, as sand and clay, with a substratum of bowlders, pebbles, g;ravel,and loam, we can easily appreciate the destructive agency of the heavy waves, rolling
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