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Updated: May 10, 2025
It was no easy matter to find a safe place; for from the foot of the crag the heathery turf slopes down all but upright, on one side to a cliff which overhangs a shoreless cove of deep dark sea, and on the other to an abyss even more hideous, where the solid rock has sunk away, and opened inland in the hillside a smooth-walled pit, some sixty feet square and some hundred and fifty in depth, aptly known then as now, as the Devil's-limekiln; the mouth of which, as old wives say, was once closed by the Shutter-rock itself, till the fiend in malice hurled it into the sea, to be a pest to mariners.
"We are past the Shutter, indeed," said Cary, very gently, "and lying in the cove at Lundy." "Will you tell me that that is not the Shutter, and that the Devil's-limekiln, and that the cliff that villain Spaniard only gone and that Yeo is not standing here by me, and Cary there forward, and why, by the by, where are you, Jack Brimblecombe, who were talking to me this minute?"
"Whither?" asked Cary. "To the south end. The crag above the Devil's-limekiln. No other place will suit." Jack gave a murmur, and half-stopped, as a frightful suspicion crossed him. "That is a dangerous place!" "What of that?" said Amyas, who caught his meaning in his tone. "Dost think I am going to leap over cliff? I have not heart enough for that. On, lads, and set me safe among the rocks."
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