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They were walking upon a sandy soil, mingled with stones, which appeared destitute of any sort of vegetation.
The castaways accordingly returned, following the opposite side of the promontory, over a soil equally sandy and rugged.
Pencroft and Herbert penetrated quite far in among the rocks, by sandy passages in which light was not wanting, for it entered through the openings which were left between the blocks, of which some were only sustained by a miracle of equilibrium; but with the light came also air--a regular corridor-gale--and with the wind the sharp cold from the exterior.
Stretched out below them was the sandy shore, bounded on the right of the river's mouth by lines of breakers.
He tossed about on his sandy couch, scarcely giving a thought to the struggle of the elements.
On the left, the country appeared to be one vast extent of sandy downs, bristling with thistles.
The ground, till then, very little undulated, boggy at first, dry and sandy afterwards, had a gentle slope, which ascended from the shore towards the interior of the country.
As to the interior of the island, its general aspect was this, very woody throughout the southern part from the mountain to the shore, and arid and sandy in the northern part.
At the north, on the contrary, one could follow their ramifications, which died away on the sandy plains.
But the vegetation did not extend far, and a long, sandy plain, which began at the foot of these slopes, reached to the beach.
It appeared to be in a perfect state of preservation, which was explained by the fact that it had stranded on a sandy beach, and not among rocks.
No granite cliff, no rocks, not even a sandy beach.
Instead of proceeding over the summit of a cliff or along a sandy beach, the settlers were obliged to remain under cover of the trees so that they might continue on the shore.
To say that the settlers, notwithstanding their fatigue, slept well on the sandy floor of the Chimneys would not be true.
In the northwest part of the island the shore became again flat and sandy.
He would never consent to admit that in that channel, with its fine sandy bed, just like the beach, which he had often crossed at low water, there could be an unknown rock.
The youth, idly, rambled at leisure along a shore sandy as a towing-path.
But with M. Seurel, Jasmin, and several other boys, we followed an easy sandy path running parallel to the first and bordering a neighbouring farm.
We try in vain to divert our thoughts and beguile our uneasiness during this wandering walk, by attracting one another's attention to the forms of hares and the small sandy furrows where rabbits have been scratching ... to a trap set in the wood ... or to the trail of a poacher . . .
But I must observe, too, that at first this was a confused heap of goods, which, as they lay in no order, so they took up all my place; I had no room to turn myself: so I set myself to enlarge my cave, and work farther into the earth; for it was a loose sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labour I bestowed on it: and so when I found I was pretty safe as to beasts of prey, I worked sideways, to the right hand, into the rock; and then, turning to the right again, worked quite out, and made me a door to come out on the outside of my pale or fortification.
I spent many a day to find out a great stone big enough to cut hollow, and make fit for a mortar, and could find none at all, except what was in the solid rock, and which I had no way to dig or cut out; nor indeed were the rocks in the island of hardness sufficient, but were all of a sandy, crumbling stone, which neither would bear the weight of a heavy pestle, nor would break the corn without filling it with sand.
In fact, on the right, on the left, and in front, dark forms were evident, making their way carefully toward sandy hollows.
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