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Excerpt from The Disturbing Element or Chronicles of the Blue-Bell Society There is another objection, namely, that our beach consists of nothing but pebbles, big pebbles and small, varying from the size of a pea to that of a bombshell, all rolling about under the feet of the walker, so that only practice can make perfect in the art of avoiding the getting the ankles and insteps crushed among them. Susan used to come home with her feet black and blue the first year we were here, and though there is a nice smooth walk and carriage-road along the top, where, alone, I can take my walks abroad, it is only half-a-mile long, and storms and spring tides are apt to make such havoc of it that we have to pay heavily to keep it in repair. Moreover, it is only a narrow shelf, deposited, as the learned tell us, by the Boldre, and a very little way out the sea becomes so extremely deep that bathing is very dangerous, except in one tiny cove behind Barbe Head, where an enterprising old woman keeps two machines and a-half. So it was a failure when, some forty or fifty years ago, a bold speculator, the same who began the great reservoir on the moor, added to the original little town half-a-dozen lodging-houses and snows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.