Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 70: what you’re looking at

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.64 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. all its northern front, rolled on to the sea. To the east, west, and south lay the same grim, uninviting sand-banks and lagoons, bounded in the last direction at a distance © of a mile and a half by the murmurous line of white breakers which marked the limit of the lowest tide. Even as I gazed an increasing uproar from seaward broke upon my ears, and looking for the cause I saw a foam-capped wall of water some four feet high rushing swiftly onwards, devouring the steaming mud-wastes as it came. So rapidly did it move that a horseman need be well mounted to escape it, and many a one has perished from that cause, not that the water has drowned him, for, excepting where the rivers run, it is not of a greater depth than five feet, but that, the sands being loosened and made fiuid by the waves, he and his steed have become speedily engulfed in the unstable ground. _ In a few minutes the water reached the house, and as it struck the platform I fancied I felt a tremor run through the building, but regarding the massive solidity of the structure I scouted the idea. Round the La Ol @ r comichbooks.com