Crossword-Solution: PHOLAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Arena), instead of a loose talus, there was a bare sloping bank of tertiary mudstone, perforated, above the line of the highest tides, by numerous shells of a Pholas now common in the harbour.

When these flints, probably long exposed in the atmosphere, became submerged, they were covered with barnacles, and the surface of the chalk became perforated by the _Pholas crispata,_ each fossil shell still remaining at the bottom of its cylindrical cavity, now filled up with loose sand from the incumbent crag.

This species of Pholas still exists, and drills the rocks between high and low water on the British coast.

There is _no reasoning_ in it; it works not by algebra nor by integral calculus; it is a piercing Pholas-like mind's tongue that works and tastes into the very rock-heart; no matter what be the subject submitted to it, substance or spirit, all is alike divided asunder, joint and marrow; whatever utmost truth, life, principle it has laid bare, and that which has no truth, life, nor principle, is dissipated into its original smoke at a touch.

The crypt protects the _Pholas_ from confervæ, which, when they get at it, grow not merely outside, but even within the lips of the valves, preventing the action of the syphons.