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...many thrills out of three people balanced on the edge of a beetling cliff...
...Nicaraguan coast, lies Santa Catalina island, called Providence by the English, but known to the world of readers as "Treasure Island" This little isle made famous by the magic of Robert Lonis Stevenson's pen is a barren but romantic spot with a rocky cliff towering 180 feet in the air. This entire coast was once the haunt of the buccaneers, and the people of the island still show traces of the freebooters...
...motorman opened a valve, admitting water to the mechanism which works the railway. Gently jolting, the car moved perpendicularly up the cliff, atop which is perched the glorious white marble Sacre Coeur. Courteous, the Abbe Loubiere pointed out the "sights." Awed by the splendor of the view, slightly seasick at the sheer drop below them, the three tourists barkened eagerly...
Thirty soldiers rushed to the ropes, lowered themselves down the steep cliff, waited on the beach. Finally out of the water, a stocky son of Siegfried staggered, shook himself, collapsed. The Britishers worked on him, kneaded his muscles, rubbed his lungs. Consciousness dawned; the German asked...
...streets, visited three neighboring towns in its line, then rushed out over the Atlantic. The same evening- On Long Island, along the south shore, the populace marveled at huge bars of blue and yellow light rocketing through the sky-a violent freak electric storm. A little later- At Sea Cliff, on the north shore, grey Long Island Sound suddenly delivered out of its flat bosom a towering column of water that raced ashore with terrific impact, spinning up trees by their roots, cottages by their foundations, dragging wreckage into the Sound on its backwash. (Cyclones and waterspouts [which are cyclones...