When we came to the end of Queen Mary Island, after passing some really remarkablebeaches on which we found a great many turtles' eggs, we came to a large basin, 1,800 m.
Beautiful gravel beacheswere now seen, extending half-way across the river, particularly from the left side.
More immense sand-beaches were passed, and then we came to a region of domed rocks showing along the river bank.
We found that day beautiful beaches of gravel, mostly on the right side.
Farther down on the right bank were neat beaches of white and red sand.
Extensive beaches of grey sand and coarse gravel were passed, until we arrived at Port Bermudez, situated at the confluence of the Pichis with the Chibbis, a tributary on the left bank.
The beachesof handsome, fine white sand were most interesting.
The sand beaches were not so frequent as we advanced on our journey.
Everywhere on those beaches I noticed the wonderful miniature sand plants, of which I made a complete collection.
Wide beaches of sand and fine gravel were to be seen on the convex or inner curves of its channel.
Then vertical rocks were to be seen all along the right bank; while on the left bank, when we crossed over to the other side of the river, were immense beaches of beautiful sand.
Most beautiful sandy beaches were now constantly seen, mostly, like the one on which we had landed, composed of singing sand.
The tide was rising, and it gained quietly upon the beaches and the pier.
It was Sunday, and the streets and wharves and beaches of Windover surged with vacuous eyes and irritable passions.
There are charming groves and parks and treeless downs, and the river cuts through the alluvial soil to a depth of eight and ten feet, throwing up broad beaches on either side.
Northward there are pretty glimpses of cliffs and rocky beaches through openings in the heavy growth which covers the islands of the upper stream.
Ancient seabeaches mark the level of high water at the time that the flood followed the melting ice.
Round pebbles in pudding-stone have been formed in brook beds and deposited on beaches where they have become caked in mud and finally consolidated into rock.
The Minnesota River finally made its way into the Mississippi and drained this great area the stranded beaches of which still remain.
At the heads of the many bays and inlets, however, one finds beautiful sand-beaches with gracefully curving lines, in striking contrast to the dark, rugged cliffs bordering their seaward extensions.
These oldbeaches and terraces show that the land was formerly depressed and has since risen; but, as shown above, has not regained the elevation it had previous to the glacial epoch.
In southern California, for example, raised beaches and a narrow coastal plain about Los Angeles give evidence of a modern rise of the land.
On the middle Atlantic coast of the United States the prevailing winds blow southward and there is a general southward flow of the shore currents, which carry with them the sand on the beaches and bars.
I have had a very kind letter from Lady Walker, and shall go and stay with them at Simon's Bay as soon as I feel up to the twenty- two miles along the beaches and bad roads in the mail-cart with three horses.
The drive to Simon's Bay was lovely, along the coast and across five beaches of snow-white sand, which look like winter landscapes; and the mountains and bay are lovely.
Now a smudge of wiry willows on the weary Kuskoquim; Now a flare of gummy pine-knots where Vancouver's scaur is grim; Now a gleam of sunny ceiba, when the Cuban beaches dim.
On some of the islands we found where green turtles had crawled up the beaches to bury their eggs in the sand.
The high, still twilights along the beaches are out of the old East just under the curve of the world, and even in October the sun rises warm from the first.
Above, as before, in that earlier morning drive, towered the giant aisles of the beachesand elms.
Paris was evidently beginning to empty its studios; the Normandy beachesnow furnished the better model.
It is rare in the Philippine Islands and so far as observed it is found on sea-beaches where it subsists upon sand-crabs.
He also decided, regretfully, to refrain from contesting the likely American landings along the broad beaches at Hagushi on the southwest coast.
After all, Buckner still had control of the 2d Marine Division, a veteran amphibious outfit which had demonstrated effectively against the Minatoga Beacheson L-Day.
The senior Marines urged Buckner to “play the amphib card,” to execute a major landing on the southeast coast, preferably along the alternate beaches at Minatoga, in order to turn the Japanese right flank.
Scouts from Major Anthony “Cold Steel” Walker’s 6th Reconnaissance Company stole across the estuary at night to gather intelligence on the Nishikoku Beaches and the Japanese defenders.
The rapid clearance of the immediate beaches by the assault units left plenty of room for follow-on forces, and the division commanders did not hesitate to accelerate the landing of tanks, artillery battalions, and reserves.
At 0406 Turner announced “Land the Landing Force,” the familiar phrase which marked the sequential countdown to the first assault waves hitting the beaches at H-Hour.
Meanwhile, the 2d Marine Division with a separate naval task unit would endeavor to duplicate opposite the Minatoga Beaches on Okinawa’s southeast coast its successful amphibious feint off Tinian.
The shelling produced more spectacle than destruction, however, because the invaders still believed General Ushijima’s forces would be arrayed around the beaches and airfields.
The Americans expected a ferocious defense of the Hagushi beaches and the airfields just beyond, followed by a general counterattack--then the battle would be over except for mop-up patrolling.
Why is this progressive march ofbeaches far from rapid?
The liberation forces now streaming across the Channel, and up the beaches and through the fields and the forests of France are using thousands and thousands of planes and ships and tanks and heavy guns.
The American Seventh Army, after a stormy landing on the exposed beaches of southern Sicily, swept with record speed across the island into the capital at Palermo.
On Campobello itself the most lonesome and picturesque drive is that along the North Road, over stony and narrow ways, up rough hills, and by beaches which seem close to the houses.
The spring green clothed its rocky sides; the white spring clouds floated above it, and within it; and small beaches of white pebbles seemed to invite the human feet which had scarcely yet come near them.
On two occasions when I crossed the beaches the sea was running too heavily to make bathing practicable.
When the 23d Marines hit the beaches on D plus 1, the fierceness of the pre-landing bombardment prevented the Japanese defenders from mounting a coordinated defense.
It is then she leaveth the village and walks about in the forest or along the beaches when others sleep.
Within, there were at least two beaches with climbable ascents to the upper reaches inland.
The larger of the twobeaches marked the point where the Terrans had first landed and where the shell thing had been killed.
Here the visitor will find a fine stretch of cliff scenery, with a succession of sandy beaches strewn with confused and broken masses of rock, and some large caverns that are well worth exploring should the state of the tide permit.
The beaches at Ramleh, near Alexandria, were bright with crowds of bathers, and the change afforded the "men from up the line" must have proved of inestimable value in keeping the army contented.
There were beaches especially reserved for non-commissioned officers and others for the privates--while in Cairo sightseeing tours were made to the pyramids and what the guide-books describe as "other points of interest.
He is not cosmopolitan, and Sorolla is: the types of boys and girls racing along the beaches of watering places which Sorolla paints are cosmopolitan.
All mountain-peaks and high headlands of lofty hills and rivers flowing out to the deep and beaches sloping seawards and havens of the sea are your delight.
The whole earth seethed, and sky and sea: and the long waves raged along the beaches round and about, at the rush of the deathless gods: and there arose an endless shaking.
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