A MIGRATORY SANDHILL
In Churchill Countj, this State, tkere ia a fueer sandhill which possesses the power oi moving. It it nearly four miles long, about a mile wide, from 100 to 400 feet high, and must obviously coatain millions «i tons of land. It is impossible to find a particle of aand larger than a pin's haaaL This bill ia not stationary, but rolls slowly eastward, the wind gathering it up on tha west end, bearing it alouf^ thu ridge and then depositing it again at tke eiat, end. This wandtnag habit is. so decided that 1a tha course of several years the ft 7ll had mored jmoU t uan a m^ e >
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2027, 4 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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114A MIGRATORY SANDHILL Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2027, 4 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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