WAVES OF SAND.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 207, 8 September 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

WAVES OF SAND.

But the sc-ient fie explanation accounts for the o v igin ot the phenomenon in quite a different manner. Great changes took place in coast-line about the Twelfth Century, and the catastrophe is known to be connected m some way with these. It is supposed that tli.; receding tide had left exposed a vast area of light sand, which, on a subsequent encroachment, it washed into high banks. One stormy night the wind carried the sand, like a mighty river, and inundated the entire Estate of Culb n. The drift came on so suddenly that a ploughman had to leave his plough, and reapers had to abandon their work with the utmost speed. The sand acted exactly like snow, covering the ground, and converting everything that impeded it into a sand mound. Peasants had to break down the walls it the back of their houses to get out, and had to nee the district altogether, to escape with their liv.es. To make matters worse. Ill© Rifer Findhorn became choked, and overflowing its banks swept away the old fishing village or Kiiulhorn n Us headlong rush to find a new outlet to the sea. When the inhabitants returned to tln> scene after the storm, they could m,u\cl\ behove ihoir own .eyes. Not it trace- of their old homes remained I'uiv white s It en sand covered everything. Kven the house of the La'.rd, and I lie little . Impel where they had worshipped s.i often, had isappoared. This latter, hewevor, has subsequently re-ai>pcared, and its stones were ut'hsed to build some oi the funis in the neighbourhood. I'art of the plough also has been discovered, and it is now preserved in Elgin Museum.