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ground, Kynance Cove, is a most romantic example of
this kind. All who have visited Tenby, know St.
Kathe-rine’s rock, which at high tide is St. Ivatherine’s island,
and at low tide is beset by fair huntresses, armed, not
with Diana’s bow, but with hammers and chisels and
india-rubber goloshes, intent upon dislodging the
dianthus, niveas, venustas, roseas, and other aquarian
treasures. This island is perforated by a lofty cavern or
tunnel, partly washed out by the waves, and partly
formed by the falling of the undermined rock; a
tunnel which has a remarkable resemblance to that of
Torghatten, with the exception that it is not so large,
and its floor is the sea-beach; but if St. Ivatherine’s
island were magnified, carried farther out to sea, and
then upraised some 600 feet, another Torghatten would
be formed.
My explanation of the Torghatten tunnel, therefore,
is, that when the whole northern coast of Scandinavia was
some 600 feet below its present level, Torghatten was of
course similarly lower ; that the floor of this tunnel was
then washed by the low-tide waves ; that waves of
previous centuries had, aided by other agencies, such as
frost and the gravitation of over-hanging masses, formed
this tunnel as an ordinary sea cavern, and the great
upheaval had raised it to its present place. If this
supposition be correct, the beating waves will have left traces of
their action round about the island at the tunnel’s level.
There may be traces of like action inside, or even some
remains of serpulæ, markings of balanæ, or other
calcareous skeletons on the sides; or even a few loose shells
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