Identifier: potomaclandings00wils (find matches)
Title: Potomac landings
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Wilstach, Paul, 1870-1952
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Maryland Historic buildings -- Virginia Potomac River Maryland -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Virginia -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Maryland -- Social life and customs Virginia -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Toronto, Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A Stretch of Potomac Beach At Cedar Grove, in King George County, Virginia. The tide-lapped sandswings in a gentle curve toward Metonikin Point, directly east of MarylandPoint. ^^^^ POTOMAC LANDINGS 17 driving amongst them) we attempted to catch themwith a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument tocatch fish with: neither better fish, more plenty, normore variety for smal fish, had any of us ever seen inany place so swimming in the water, but they are notto be caught by frying pans. Having come to thisdefinite conclusion, it is interesting to find that when, byreason of the ebbtide, their boat was left aground inthe shallow waters of the channel bank, the Captain,*sporting himselfe by nailing the fish to the bottomwith his sword, set all his companions to fishing in thissame original manner, and thus we tooke more in onehoure than we could eate in a day. Smith returned to the James River and there is norecord that he came again into the Potomac. Heappears not only to have been th

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