This looked
very much like porpoises or dolphins jumping in a heaving
sea; only that in my memory picture the real dolphins
always jump in the opposite direction, against the run
of the waves, bridging the trough.
In other places a fine, exceedingly delicate crest-line
would spring up from the high point of some buried obstacle
and sweep along in the most graceful curve as far as the
eye would carry I particularly remember one of them, and
I could discover no earthly reason for the curvature in it.
Again there would be a triangular--or should I say
"tetrahedral"?--up-sweep from the direction of the wind,
ending in a sharp, perfectly plane down-sweep on the
south side; and the point of this three-sided but oblique
pyramid would hang over like the flap of a tam. There
was something of the consistency of very thick cloth
about this overhanging flap.
Or an up-slope from the north would end in a long, nearly
perpendicular cliff-line facing south. And the talus
formation which I have mentioned would be perfectly
smooth; but it did not reach quite to the top of the
cliff, maybe to within a foot of it.
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