Identifier: ForeststreamXXVIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ong, low triangular spit, all sand, with hereand there some patches of stunted growth. The banks below thewater are straight up and down, 4 fathoms on one side and 5 fathomson the other within a couple of boats lengths from the ;fringingpebbles. Down upon it we came at a rush, reached up abreast andin an instant more ran into aflat calm, with not a breath to distendthe collaping sail. This strange phenomenon I have observedaround many of the sandy spits in Cuesapeake. Within fifty yardsastern it was blowing a stiff gale and ahead it was absolutely still.While pungies were following in mv wake staggering rail to underreduced sail, others &ahead could not oontrol their movements forlack of steerage way. So potential was the effect of the low sandspit in cutting off the wind as with a knife. The sudden changewhich had come over the Coot, from the livelist and luost exhilarat-ing kind of a race to sluggishly drifting as in a hot summers day, was April 15, 1886.) FOREST AND STREAM. 238
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