Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1911 — Kingsley’s Pebble Ridge. [ARTICLE]

Kingsley’s Pebble Ridge.

Readers and admirers of Charles Kingsley will learn with regret that his beloved "Pebble Ridge” at Westward Ho! bas suffered serious damage from the recent gales. This remarkable barrier is about fifty feet wide and twenty feet high, and extends in a straight line for about two miles from the distant cliffs to the mouth of the Taw, like an artificial embankment. It is $ singularly uniform and compact structure, formed of rounded slate, stones or pebbles, varying from six inches to two feet in diameter. Formerly the “potwallopers,’’ as the neighboring commoners are opprobriously called, used to vindicate their rights by replacing the scattered stones every Whit Monday, but of recent years this laudable practice has disastrously fallen into desuetude.—Pall Mall Gazette.

Ducks Driven by Hunger Into Harbor. Owing to stress of weather outside, where they generally dwell in security from mankind, a large number of coots, black ducks and king eiders have come up info the slack water above Martin's Point bridge and are trying to find means of sustaining life until warmer weather opens up tbelr regular feeding places. It will be recalled that a few years ago the flats, even up through the bridge, were frozen over and nothing but hand feeding for a number of days savod large numboirs of these fine birds from starvation. It may be necessary to resort to .the same treatment again, for the flats above the bridge are pretty well iced up and only a small section of open water and moist ground remains for the birds.—Portland Argus.