the which this half a gale makes with the sea it must have been a terrific time indeed when that great wave rushed and roared across the islands since dinner i have been to the eastern shore to look at the sea it is a wild spectacle but still i suppose an infinite deal of being a storm outside of this island there is a long and low one or two in a line by ic american note books looking more like a of rocks than an island and at the distance of a mile or more there the surf and spray break gallantly � white forms rising up all at once and hovering a moment in the air spots which in calm times are not from the rest of the ocean now are converted into white the swell of the waves against our shore makes a snowy depth tinged with green for many feet back from the shore the longer waves swell and rush upon the rocks and when they return the waters pour back in a against the outer points of nose and star island there is a higher surf than here because the wind being from the these islands receive it first and form a partial barrier in respect to this while i looked there was moisture in the air and occasional of rain the places in the rocks were full of the fallen rain it is quite impossible to give an idea of these rocky shores � how they are tossed together lying in all directions what solid what great fragments thrown out from the rest often the rocks are broken square and so as to form a kind of staircase though for the most part such as would require a giant stride to ascend them sometimes a black trap rock runs through the bed of granite sometimes the sea has eaten this away leaving a long irregular in some places owing to the same cause perhaps there is a great hollow place into the ledge and forming a harbor into which the sea flows and while there is foam and at the entrance it is comparatively oc � american note books parts of the are as much as fifty feet of height down which you look over a bare and smooth descent at the base of which is a sha y margin of sea weed but it is vain to try to express this confusion as much as anything else it seems as if some of the massive materials of the world remained superfluous after the creator had finished and were carelessly thrown down here where the part of them from the sea and in the course of thousands of years have become partially with a little soil the wind has changed to and blows pretty the sun shone before it set and the mist which all day has the land now takes the aspect of a cloud � drawing a thin veil between us and the shore and rising above it in our own atmosphere there is no fog nor mist september � i spent last evening as well as part of the evening before at mr s it is certainly a romantic incident to find such a young man on this lonely island his marriage with the pretty is true romance in our talk we have glanced over many matters and among the rest that of the stage to prepare himself for which was his first motive in coming hither he appears quite to have given up any dreams of that kind now what he will do on returning to the world as his purpose is i cannot imagine but no doubt through all their remaining life both he and she will look back to this rocky ledge with its handful of soil as to a paradise last evening we mr mrs and miss sat by v ic american note books and talked of ghosts and kindred subjects and they told me of the appearance of a little old woman in a striped gown that had come into that house a few months ago she was seen by nobody but an irish nurse who spoke to her but received no answer the little woman drew her chair up towards the fire and out her feet to warm them by and by the nurse who suspected nothing of her ghostly character went to get a of water and when she came back the little woman was not there it being known precisely how many and what people were on the island and that no such little woman was them the fact of her being a ghost is i taught them how to discover the hidden sentiments of letters by a gold ring over them ordinarily since i have been here we have spent the evening under the where mr sits to take the air he seems to avoid the within doors whenever he can so there he sits in the sea breezes when inland people are probably drawing their chairs to the fireside and there i sit with him � not keeping up a continual flow of talk but each speaking as any wisdom happens to come into his mind the wind this morning is from the rather brisk but not very strong there is a scattering of clouds about the sky but the atmosphere is singularly clear and we can see several hills of the interior the cloud like white mountains and along the shore the long white and the dotted dwellings with great distinctness many small vessels spread their wings and go by ic american note books i have been rambling over the southern part of the island and looking at the traces of there there are several � the largest perhaps thirty yards square � surrounded with a rough of very antiquity built originally broad and strong two or three large stones in width and piled up breast high or more 