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some cases. This is the case even with the sea,
setting aside the yellow colour of the water that is
visibly sandy.
The waves of the Atlantic, where they dash
against the dark cliffs of Mohir and Kilkee, and
all along the coast of Ireland from Loop Head to
Galway Bay, are singularly rich in colour where
they break directly on the rocks without any
intervening sand.
Instead of being of lighter colour, of a more
yellow green near the coast, as we always find it
where the shore is of limestone or yellow sand, the
water here is perceptibly darker, more deeply
indigo in tint, than out at sea. I observed this
in the course of a recent visit to the west coast of
Ireland, especially during a gale in the
neighbourhood of the tortured rocks of Kilkee. This coast
water must hold in suspension a vast quantity of
dark purple rock particles too small to be
separately visible, even with the aid of a microscope,
for the waves, in spite of the smoothness due to
their fluidity, are scooping out deep caverns and
natural bridges, and are perpetually undermining
the hard cliffs, and isolating promontories.
In order to effect this every drop of water that
splashes on the rock must do its portion of the
work. What must be the size of the rock par-
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