The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 94
ough apart to allow afine deep water strait between them. The poorest type of natural harbor is just aV-shaped dent in the coast, where, grantedgood weather, vessels may run in and unload,putting off again before the next heavy storm.Vineyard Haven, in the island of IMarthasVineyard, is one of… … THE ENTRANCE TO THE ANNAPOLIS BASIN. them all against the shore. It even threw partsof these wrecks across the wagon road thatskirts the bay. One heavy schooner was drivenentirely through a stout steamer wharf, cuttingthe latter in two! It takes such happenings asthis to awake the imagination of…
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