The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 94
of these in-closed inlets. Next in order of value, after the bottleharbors, are the river-mouths that have be-come walled in by sand-bars. Sometimes these CURIOUS STORIES FROM HISTORY 83 reaches of water are very spacious, and theirprotecting islands of sand are many miles inlength. Pamlico and… … THE ANNAPOLIS BASIN. the sands about. It is easy to see how muchbetter a harbor is one of our geographicalbottles, lying behind two stalwart, unchang-ing mountains that push their noses towardeach other just far enough apart to allow afine deep water strait between them. The poorest type of natural…
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![An illustration from The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-englishpilotcart00thor-15-16.webp)
