Thread: Easdale Island.
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Old 10-14-2014, 01:46 PM   #9
limey
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I think the lagoons are filled with salt water. One of the causes of the end of slate quarrying here was an exceptionally high tide which flooded the quarries at the end of the nineteenth century (I think). That and changes in construction and transportation markets.


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