Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 395
each-line, at times low downover the curling surf, at others high in the air,to their fishing-grounds. How far they wentI know not, but often I have seen them pass-ing a point ten miles north of Pelicantown,flying steadily up the coast as though theirhaven was still far distant. The AVestern white… … HEAD OF PELICAN. MOUTH OPEN AND CLOSED darting from a height of thirty feet, with aforce which almost buries him beneath thewater, and makes a splash one can hear halfa mile away. He weighs about eight pounds,and one would think that the force with which he strikes the waterwould break everybone in…
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