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By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore

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By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore
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Publisher: New Amsterdam Book Company
Number of pages: 265

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The quaint, old-fashioned little town faces eastward to the blue Pacific, whose billows, when the wind blows from any point between north and east, come tumbling in across the shallow bar in ceaseless lines of foaming white, to meet, when the tide is on the ebb, the swift current of a tidal river as broad as the Thames at Westminster Bridge.

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