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The I sland; but a lowridge of sand and gravel connects it with the main-land. From the shelter of this ridge A rdevora Town looks across the bay to the whitewashed lighthouse on Gulland Point four miles as the crow flies, six if you follow the deep curve of the foreshore. The beach all the way is sandy the sand a vivid yellow; and on bright days the sea takes from this underlying sand a sapphire clearness. Blue sea, white breakers, yellow shore in summer this bit of the coast is full of colour. It has its own flowers, too; on the Island the vernal squills, white and pink as well as blue ;gentians afterwards, sea-lavender and succory, and the scarce balm-leaved figwort; wall-mustard, fennel, and valerian everywhere. A round the bay, at the back of its yellow beaches, the Towans
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