. Guide leaflet. etts or the coastof Maine. We are on a rock-bound coast,hemmed in by high cliffs, against the baseof which the incoming tide breaks inmasses of foam, which scour through everycrevice and rush back into the sea. Thetide rises and falls nine feet or more,according to the locality, and, farthernorth, several times that distance. At low tide the vertical walls of thecliffs are seen to be broken into shelvingterraces, draped and festooned with rock-w^eed, bordered above with a long friezeof white barnacles. The basin-like hol-lows on the rocky terraces are filled withwater, even wh
. Guide leaflet. etts or the coastof Maine. We are on a rock-bound coast,hemmed in by high cliffs, against the baseof which the incoming tide breaks inmasses of foam, which scour through everycrevice and rush back into the sea. Thetide rises and falls nine feet or more,according to the locality, and, farthernorth, several times that distance. At low tide the vertical walls of thecliffs are seen to be broken into shelvingterraces, draped and festooned with rock-w^eed, bordered above with a long friezeof white barnacles. The basin-like hol-lows on the rocky terraces are filled withwater, even when the tide is at its lowest,and each one glows with submergedcolors Uke an aquatic sea-garden. There isno soil for burrowing like that on sand- andmud-flats, and all animals having no ade-quate clinging organs, or requiring a softsubstratum for burrowing are eliminatedhere by the force of the elements, and yet Left: The only coral {Astrangui danat) of the New England coast is shown growing over a rock y lx)ttoin. The rocky coast at low white band is made up ofbarnacles. Below these, fes-toons of rock weed partlycover crowded masses of mussels. In the water, starfishand green sea urchins abound
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