It was an afternoon in autumn, with a sound of wintry breakers on the shore, the tall woods copper-color, the thickets disheveled, and the nuts, in the corries of Ardkinglas, the braes of Ardno, dropping upon bracken burned to gold. Until he was out of the glen and into the open land, the traveler could scarcely conceive that what by his chart was no more than an arm of the ocean could make so much ado; but when he found the incoming tide fretted here and there by black rocks, and elsewhere, in little bays, the beaches strewn with massive boulders, the high rumor of the sea-breakers in that breezy weather seemed more explicable

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