Recently, the inscriptions on the stone were visible only for a short period of time between the shifting tides, due to dramatic erosion of the shoreline at Pojac Point and the fact that the stone was positioned 20 feet from the extreme low tide line mark.
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""'Pavoclinus pavo " "', the "'Peacock klipfish "', is a species of clinid found from L�deritzbucht, Namibia to the Kei River, South Africa where it can be found in weedy areas at the low tide line.
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Massachusetts and Maine ( which share a common legal heritage ) recognize private property ownership to the mean low tide line-- but allow public access to the seashore between the low and high tide lines for " fishing, fowling and navigation, " traditional rights going back to the Colonial Ordinance of 1647.
