🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 16

Above Corsair Bay and Cass Bay there is a group of bold rocky peaks which, as the traveller passes onward from Lyttelton, is seen to curve inward in a huge half-cup, open to the south, and down this open side are strewn the disorderly remains of the old lava stream which flowed from the core of the volcano and which ran out into the harbour at Cass Bay in a tumbled black reef.

Who acts: group, bold rocky peaks, old lava stream · What happens: be, pass, see, curve, open, flow · To what, where: Corsair Bay, Lyttelton, huge half cup, south, core, harbour

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