most of the beaches below Dallas Road were pebbly and had a rough, rocky points jutting out into the sea and dividing the long beaches and little bays from another. All the beaches were piled with drift wood - great logs bruised and battered out of all resemblance to trees except that some of them still had tremendous, interlocked roots tough as iron, which defied all the pounding of the waves, all the battering against the rocks to break them. The waves could only wash them naked and fling them high up on the beach to show man what he had to wrestle against under the soil of the Canadian west. But the settlers were not stopped. they went straight ahead taming the land. It took more then roots to stop these men.
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