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In some places the river [46]
is cutting down into its old
bed, removing ash which ante-
dates the eruption of 1902. One of
these places is about two miles
from the sea, where the filling of
new ash was so deep that the
arrived stream cut off a sharp
angle of the old wall, thus straight-
ening its course. A sharp pinnacle
has been left in the middle of the gorge
which is about 50 feet high. The
upper 15 feet of this pinnacle consists
of new material, but the lower 35
feet has been cut through older deposits.
Its base is about 250 feet above sea level.
The pinnacle is backed by the remains
of one of the higher flood plain terraces.
Upstream from the pinnacle the
large boulders in the bottom of the