Inhaltsangabe
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Excerpt: ... and the rank grass, the little stream goes winding on, hearing the sea call louder and louder on the other side of that insurmountable wall, until, on a sudden, it finds itself on the brink of an abyss, like the shaft of a mine--a chasm that drops sheer down into invisible depths. There is no other way. "Come down! come down!" cry the beating waves; "come down! we are here!" And in one wild leap the stream goes down, and so by the water-gate out to sea; and from the path round the headland above you can see the clear blue water tawny and troubled three fathoms and more with the muddy waters of the inland stream. The wealth of colour on the higher ground, and the great reaches of sea and sky, might successfully divert atten tion from the terrible nature of the place, might cheat one into thinking that this was like any other picturesque gap in an iron-bound coast, any other romantic bit of cliff-scenery, but for the strange shape of the great rock just above the chasm. The wind and weather of ages has worn the granite into the likeness of a gigantic face. The profile is perfect--brow, nose, mouth, chin, all showing in rugged outline against the many-coloured fields of the sea, for the sea-line comes high above the giant's head. The profile slopes backward a little, as though the giant lay reclined, with his head propped on the rocky pillow behind him. His chin is on his breast, where another mass of rock suggests his clenched fist grasping tightly at his beard. He might be a Titan, chained chained there upon his tomb--his own monument, doomed to watch, through countless ages, the slow advance of the encroaching billows. But he is more like a sentinel, keeping watch over the Gulf; and this notion of him is all the more likely because the eye which is visible seems to be sometimes open...
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