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get at it to test with the hammer.
The original beach at its foot was abundantly strewn with large fragments of the same stone  I looked carefully along so much of the beach as is at present exposed for concretions but found none though formerly there were a good many of them. They were burned for lime in early days, lime being scarce in this region, and the bed from which they were derived being very low down & near the water's edge has long been covered by plank roads piling and buildings, so that little erosion has been likely to take place of late years and the supply is probably permanently cut off
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