The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14

and his return to the island the sea adj
vanced and reclaimed some seventy-ive
feet of debris and sand which had been
thrown up. AS the week before the newly
formed bluff had increased hundred feet
in width this leaves it still beyond its
original proportions. This latest action of
wind and wave has revealed some inter-
esting facts and given clearer and more
indubitable testimony as to the character
of the disturbances. Along the face of this
cliff, which so mysteriously sprang into
existence in single night, there appears a
ledge of rock, extending nearly to the sum-
NIT and pitching inward at an angle of
twenty-five degrees departure from a YER
teal plane.
This rock is apparently composed of a
dark-blue slate, and can be whitfield with a
knife. Embedded in it are nodules of a
dark-blue cement rock, and it is be-
smeared with fresh, blue clay from the
harbor bed. In crevices running all the
way up the side of this ledge are limpets,
barnacles, mussels and oysters, now emit
ting unsavory edors, which have drowned
in the open air.
The base of this cliff, which has worn
away by the erosion of the water, is strewn
with stones and broken rocks. Some of
water and are rounded and polished.
Some of these show line of fresh cleavage,
and one of them, picked up by the writer
and now in her possession, is hard dark,
blush rock, with a clean horizontal
cleavage, freshly wrenched from some
hidden ledge and incrusted with sparkling
iron pyrites Scattered over this stony
debris are monstrous powders, varying
from one to several tons in weight
AT about the middle of this new cliff, ex-
tending from its base far out into the water,
are many large rocks. The principal
among these measures over sixty feet in
circumference at the waters edge and rises
twenty feet above at high tide. All of these
rocks are on certain faces and in their crew
ices swarming with sea shells. Some oys-
tiers of superlative quality were found upon
them immediately after their upheaval,
and the shells of many which were over
looked, with their purifying contents are
still to be found on all sides.
Upon this narrow, rocky beach, immedi-
ately after the upheaval, something was
found which will arouse the interest of
epicures and cause a ripple of excitement
to thrill the gourmands of San Francisco.
This is half OF a fresh oyster shell, five and
three-quarters of an inch wide and six and
half inches in length, appearing almost
circular in form. 1t distinctly differs in
color and shape from the ordinary species,
being pale-gray on the outside and having
a gray, pearly lining. This single valve
weighs almost an even pound. The white
limy line OF the oysters adherence is
fresh and plainly marked and one cannot
but wonder what it would be to sit down
to a half dozen of these mammoth bivalves
on the half-shell, and if it wouldn't be
worth while for the San Francisco club
men to send down commission to pros
pect the shoals of Cuylers Harbor. This
shell is also in your correspondents pos
session.
1t must be borne in mind that all along
the harbor in the locality described there
formerly existed merely narrow strip of
sandy beach, free from shells or pebbles or
stones of any Sort the single exception
being one peculiarly marked rock, weigh
ing fully six tons, very hard and porous
and of manifest volcanic origin, which
stood on the edge of the beach and was a
little landmark in this neighborhood. This
rock, with what was formerly its seward
side fringed with gray moss and plastered
with limpets and snails, was found the
morning after the upheaval, on the top of
the new cliff, seventy feet above the sea,
and was viewed there by half dozen COM
petent witnesses.
During the big seas width prevailed be-
tween the Odd and 26th of March, and
which undermined the cliff, it fell upon
the stones below and now lies there, above
the reach of tidewater, the dried seamoss