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Great Egg Harbor Inlet
3 I201
2 595
525
3
August 23
Sc. Henry B. Winship
497
Brigantine Shoals
IO 450|
IO 440
10
9
September 2
Barkentine Nicanor
453
Great Egg Harbor Inlet
205 000 205 000
13
September 10
Sc. Palestine
31
Great Egg Harbor Inlet
I 450
I 410
40
2
November 30
Sc. Three Brothers
142
Great Egg Harbor Inlet
4 300
4 300
5
November 30
Sc. Hattie Baker
346
Brigantine Shoals
9 200
9 200
7
1890-June 2
Bk. Stafford
156
Absecon Inlet
I 000
1 000
6
1891-May 31
Sc. Commodore
26
Absecon Beach
28 000
28 000
7
1891-August 18
Yht. Ida
27
Absecon Bar
7 000
200
3
August 25
Sc. Henry M. Clarke
173
Absecon Inlet
6 000
6 000
7
December 11
Sc. Annie Godfrey
18 Absecon Inlet
I 100
I 100
3
December 19
Sc. Benj. B. Church
513
Brigantine Shoals
14 800
14 235
7
1892-February 5
· St. Sh. Venezuela
2843
Brigantine Shoals
850 000 850 000
72
June 5
| Sc. Annie E. Fowler
17 Absecon Inlet
I 200
500
700
3
June 16
Sc. Arthur
56| Great Egg Harbor Inlet
5 000
5 000
4
September 2
Sc. Marcia S. Lewis
347
Great Egg Harbor Inlet
5 700
5 700
6
1893-March 2
Barkentine Baldwin
800
Brigantine Shoals
8 800
7 050
I 750
9
March 7
Sc. Edward M. Hartshorn
29 Absecon Bar
I 200
I 200
3
May 4
Sc. Booth Brothers
348 Brigantine Shoals
17 000
17 000
8
July 29
Yht. J. O. Smith
18, Absecon Inlet
2 500
2 500
9
Sc. John W. Hall, Jr.
193
Absecon Inlet
3 900
3 900
6
December 20
6 800
565
Tonnage
152
August 24
Slp. C. S. Parnell
10 Absecon Inlet
$ 1 000 $ 1 000
I
September 2
Slp. Mascot
14
Absecon Inlet
I 800
I 800
40
October 24
1 Sc. John W. Fox
82
Absecon Inlet
5 000
5 000
4
October 26
Sc. Ethel
148 Absecon Inlet
9 800
9 785.
$ 15
5
November 16
Sc. Allie B. Cathrall
109| Absecon Inlet
5 750
5 750
5
November 24
Sc. John W. Fox
82 Absecon Inlet
5 500
5 500
4
December II
Sc. Allie B. Cathrall
5 850
5 850
5
December 27
Sc. Lizzie Bell
44' Little Egg Harbor Inlet
2 050
2 050
3
1894-January 22
Str. Andes
1711' Little Egg Harbor Inlet
300 000
283 000
17 000
42
Str. Bramble
1508
Brigantine Shoals
45 000
45 000
25
September 1
Sc. Mary Ella
29
Absecon Inlet
I 100
I 060
40
2
September 10
Vht. Patrol
Absecon Inlet
3 000
2 975
25
I
October 7
Str. Goldsboro
681 Little Egg Harbor Inlet
32 000
32 000
16
October 28
Sc. Sunbeam
22 Little Egg Harbor Inlet
I 050
1 050
2
November 12
Sc. Wm. H. Davenport
256 Absecon Bar
17 500
17 500
6
1895-February 24
Str. Ben Bellido
1914, Brigantine Shoals
100 000 100 000
27
March 23
Sc. Vigilant
8 Little Egg Harbor Inlet
400
370
30
May 9
Sc. John Anna
29 Great Egg Harbor Inlet
650
650
2
May 11
Sc. Mary Ella
29 Absecon Inlet
I 800
1 800
3
1
Sc. Centennial
113 Absecon Inlet
3 800
3 800
3
August 10
Sc. E. Waterman
107 Absecon Inlet
9 000
9 000
6
October 9
Sc. II. B Metcalf
160 Absecon Inlet
6 250
400
5 850
4
October 9
Yht. Mary Atchison
Great Egg Harbor Inlet
550
550
3
October 30
Wht. Fenly
Absecon Inlet
300
295
5
2
October 31
Sc. Edith
198 Brigantine Beach
IO 500
I 500
9 000
6
November 3
Sc. E. F. C. Young
113
Absecon Beach
6 000
6 000
5
November 27
Str. F. P. Stoy
IO
Absecon Bar
3 000
3 000
9
1896-February 6
Sc. Asenath A. Shaw
557
Brigantine Beach
20 000
20 000
7
March 15
Sc. Thos. Thomas
44
Absecon Bar
2 300
2 300
45
April 10
Slp. Helen F. Leaming
15
Absecon Inlet
I 200
I 200
2
May 3
Sc. Palestine
31
Great Egg Harbor Inlet
1 500
50
1 450
3
September 12
Slp. C. F. Wohl
13
Absecon Bar
1 000
I 000
30
September 19
Sc. Annie E. Fowler
17
Absecon Bar
I 200
I 200
November 15
Sc. Ella R. Simpson
83
Little Egg Harbor Inlet
3 000
3 000
4
December 4
Se. Hattie Rebecca
18
Absecon Bar
500
450
50
3
1897-January 27
Sc. Gertrude T. Browning
1 34
Absecon Bar
13 000
13 000
6
May 8
Sp. Francis
2077
Little Egg Harbor Inlet
300 000
37 500 262 500
25
June 25 July 10
Sc. Katie G. Robinson
299
Absecon Inlet
5 000
4 000
1 000
5
153
April 4
Sc. Jerome B. Look
361
Little Egg Harbor Inlet
16 000
16 000
May 13
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109 Absecon Inlet
List of Life-Saving Stations.
Names and Localities of Life-Saving Stations in Atlantic County, Coast of New Jersey, and the names of persons who have served as keepers of stations.
Designations of Stations since June 1, 1883
Localities
Year when Station was Erected
Number by which Stations were designated at different periods
Names of Keepers
1849
1854
1872
Little Beach
South Side Little Egg Inlet
1872
No. 24
Joseph P. Shourds William F. Gaskill Major B. Ireland Charles H. Horner James Rider
Brigantine
572 miles north of Absecon Light
1849
No. 9
No. 18
No. 25
James Scull William Holdzkom John H. Turner Constant Brown James A. Abrams John M. Holzkom
South Brigantine
31'8 miles north of Absecon Light
IS72
No. 26
C. A. Holdzkom William Holdzkom
Atlantic City
At Absecon Light
1849
No. 10
No. 19
No. 27
Samuel Adams Barton Gaskill Purnell Bowen Amasa Brown Timothy H. Parker
Absecon
2 34 miles south of Absecon Light
1872
No. 28
Thomas Rose William W. Eldridge Israel S. Blackman Joseph L. Gaskill
Great Egg Harbor
634 miles south of Absecon Light
1854
No. 20
No. 29
Joseph Ireland Japhet Townsend John Bryant Wm. H. Smith Levi P. Casto
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Absecon Inlet and Bay above Anchorage to Brigantine Cabarf. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY CHARTS 122, 123, and 8.
SAILING DIRECTIONS .- Vessels intending to enter this inlet should make the Sea Buoy, which lies just outside the bar; hard sandy bottom. From it
steer from buoy to huoy. There is about 5 feet at low water on the bar. Every effort will be made to keep the buoys in the best water; but the channel is liable to changes, and strangers should exercise cantion.
Name of station or locality of aid.
Color of aid.
huoy. Number if a
Description of mark or aid.
Compass bearings and distances of promi- nent objects from the aid.
est fides
Outer (or Sea ) Bell Buoy
Black and white perpen- dicular stripes
Nun shaped with lattice body ; bell rung by a ball Absecon Light-House, NW. 12 N. rolled by action Second Buoy, NNW. of the sea
South Brigantine Life-Saving Station, NNE. 34 E.
21
This buoy lies just out- side of the bar. Pilots and masters of vessels are requested to notify the Light-House Inspector if this buoy drifts from its position or does not work satisfactorily.
Second (or Bar) Buoy
Black and white perpen- dicular stripes Black and white perpen- dicular stripes
3d-class can
Absecon Light-House, WSW. Fourth Buoy, N. by W.
9 In mid-channel
ABSECON LIGHT- STATION
White and red horizontal bands; lantern white
Tower, 159 ft. high; | Barnegat Light-House, 28 miles lower third, white; middle third, red; and upper, white. Two white dwell- ings with lead-col- ored trimmings and green shutters 3d-class can
Fixed white light, visible 19 miles. On the south side of Absecon Inlet, Atlantic City, N. J. There is a life-saving station here.
Fourth Buoy
Black and white perpen- dicular stripes
South Brigantine Life-Saving Station, 10 ENE.
In mid-channel
Absecon Light-House, S. To anchorage, NNW.
Depth at low-
est tides, in ft.
GENERAL REMARKS. (NOTE .- Bearings and courses are magnetic, and distances expressed in nautical miles )
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2d-class nun
Absecon Light-House, NW. by W. Third Buoy, NNW.
8 | Hard sandy bottom
Third Buoy
Cape May Light-House, 37 miles
Atlantic City. Chapter Er.
Dr. Charles C. Abbott, an ardent naturalist, has wandered much along this coast, and the following extracts from an essay born of his pen
Aboriginal may well have place in the lore of the region.
Footprints
"A ponderous geologist, with weighty tread and weightier manner, brought his foot down upon the unoffending sod and declared, 'These meadows are sinking at a rapid rate; something over two feet a century.' We all knew it, but Sir Oracle had spoken, and we little dogs did not dare to bark.
Not long after I returned alone to these ill-fated meadows and began a leisured, all-day ramble. They were very beautiful. There was a wealth of purple and of white boneset and iron weed of royal dye. Sun- flower and primrose gilded the hidden brooks, and every knoll was banked with rose-pink centaury. Nor was this all. Feathery reeds towered above the marsh, and every pond was empurpled with pontederia and starred with lilies. Afar off acres of nut-brown sedge made fitting background for what meadow tracts were still green and grassy, while close at hand, more beau- tiful than all, were struggling growths held down by the golden dodder's net that overspread them.
It does not need trees or rank shrubbery to make a wilderness. This low-lying tract, to-day, with but a summer's growth above it, is as wild and lonely as the Western plains. Lonely, that is, as man thinks, but not forsaken. The wily mink, the pert weasel, the musk-rat and meadow mouse ramble in safety through it. The great blue heron, its stately cousin, the snowy egert, and the dainty bittern find it a congenial home.
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THE LOW NEW JERSEY COAST
The fiery dragonfly darts
and lazy butterflies drift across
the blooming waste; bees buzz angrily as you
approach; basking snakes bid you defiance. Verily, this is wild life's domain and man is out of place.
En Indian Momc
It was not always so. The land is sinking, and what now of that older time when it was far above its present level-a high, dry, upland track along which flowed a clear and rapid stream? The tell-tale arrow point is our guide, and wherever the sod is broken we have an inkling of Indian history. The soil, as we dig a little deeper, is almost black with charcoal dust, and it is evident that, centuries ago, the Indians were content to dwell here, and well they might. Even in Colonial days the place had merit, and escaped not the eager eyes of Penn's grasping followers. It was meadow then, and not fitted for his house, but the white man built his barn above the ruins of his dusky predecessor's home. All trace of human habi- tation now is gone, but the words of the geologist kept ringing in my ears, and of late I have deen digging. It is a little strange that so few traces of the white man are found as compared with relics of the Indian. From the barn that once stood here and was long ago destroyed by a flood it might be expected to find at least a rusty nail.
The ground held nothing telling of a recent past, but was eloquent of the distant long ago. Dull, indeed, must be the imagination that cannot recall what has been by the aid of such material as the spade here brought to light. Not only were the bow and spear proved to be the common
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weapons of the time, but there were in even greater abundance, and of many patterns, knives to flay the game. It is not enough to merely glance
at a trimmed flake of flint or carefully chipped splinter of argillite, and
Reading tbe Dast say to yourself, 'a knife.' Their great variety has a significance that should not be overlooked. The same implement could not be put to every use for which a knife was needed ; hence the range in size from those of sev- eral inches in length to tiny flakes that will likely remain a puzzle as to their purpose. It is supposed and possibly asserted that the Indian knew nothing of forks, but that he plunged his fingers into the boiling pot or held in his bare hands the steaming joints of bear or venison is quite improbable. Now, the archæologist talks glibly of bone awls whenever a sharpened splinter of bone is presented to him, as if only to perforate leather were such imple- ments intended. They doubtless had other uses, and I am sure more than one split and sharpened bone that was found would have served excellently well as a one-tined fork wherewith to lift from the pot a bit of meat. Whether or not such forks were in use, there were wooden spoons, as a bit of a bowl and mere splinter of the handle served to show. Kalm tells us they used the laurel for making this utensil, but I fancied my fragment was hickory. Potsherds everywhere spoke of the Indians feasting, and it is now known that besides bowls and shallow dishes of ordinary sizes, they had huge vessels also, of several gallons' capacity. All these are broken now, but, happily, fragments of the same dish are often found together, and so we can reconstruct them."
But what did the Indians eat ? Quaint old Gabriel Thomas, writ- ing about 1696, tells us that "they live chiefly on Mare or Indian Corn rosted in the Ashes, sometimes beaten boyl'd with Water, called Homine. They have cakes, not unpleasant ; also Beans and Pease, which nourish much, but the Woods and Rivers afford them their pro- vision ; they eat morning and evening, their Seats and Tables on the ground."
What Did
They Eat '
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In a great measure this same story of the Indians' food supply was told by the scattered bits found mingled with the ashes of an ancient hearth. Such fireplaces or cooking sites were simple in construction, but no less readily recognized as to their purpose. A few flat pebbles had been brought from the bed of the river near by and a small paved area, some two feet square, was placed upon or very near the surface of the ground. Upon this the fire was built, and, in time, a thick bed of ashes accumulated. Just how they cooked can only be conjectured, but the discovery of very thick clay vessels and great quantities of fire-cracked quartzite pebbles leads to the conclusion that water was brought to the boiling point by heat- ing the stones to a red heat and dropping them into the vessel holding the water. Thomas, as we have seen, says corn was "boyl'd with water." Meat also was, I think, prepared in the same manner. Their pottery probably was poorly able to stand such harsh treatment, which would ex- plain the presence of such vast quantities of fragments of clay vessels. Of traces of vegetable food none are now to be found, except very rarely. A few burnt nuts, a grain or two of corn, and, in one instance, what ap- peared to be a charred crab apple completes the list of what as yet have been picked from the mingled earth and ashes. This is not surprising, and what we know of vegetable food in use among the Delaware Indians is almost wholly derived from those early writers who were present at their feasts. Kalm mentions the roots of the golden club, arrow leaf and groundnut, besides various berries and nuts. It is well known that extensive orchards were planted by these people. It may be added that, in all probability, the tubers of that noble plant, the lotus, were used as food. Not about these meadows, but elsewhere in New Jersey this plant has been growing luxuriantly since Indian times.
A Lotus
Land
Turning now to the consideration of what animal food they con- sumed, one can speak with absolute certainty. It is clear that the Delawares were meat eaters. It needs but little digging on any village site
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A List of Game
to prove this, and from a single fireplace, deep down in the staff soil of this sinking meadow, have been taken bones of the elk, deer, bear, beaver, rac- coon, muskrat and gray squirrel. Of these the remains of deer were largely in excess, and as this holds good of every village site I have examined, doubtless the Indians depended more largely upon this animal than upon all the others. Of the list only the elk is extinct in the Delaware Valley, and was probably rare even at the time of the European settlement of the country, except in the mountain regions. If individual tastes varied as they do among us we have certainly sufficient variety here to have met every fancy. Not one of the animals named but is considered eatable among ourselves, although raccoon is scarcely a delicacy. Eyebrows may raise at the suggestion of dining on muskrats ; but he who has had their hind legs properly cooked, knows what a royal dish they make. Prominent among the bird-bones were those of the wild turkey, but traces of smaller game were found. The turkey has been extinct on these same meadows less than one hundred years. Fish of many kinds have been recognized from the scattered bones, jaws, with teeth and spines, and frequently the large horny plates of the sturgeon are found. It is said that these were used as knives, their edges being made sharper by grinding. It is very likely, and knives of jasper, of just such shape and size, are not uncom- mon. Of course, the Indian well knew the merit of our oyster, as the huge shell heaps on the sea-coast testify, but here he was content to use our river mussels, and with proper seasoning they can be made palatable. I have known one to be worried down, backed by a wad of pepper-grass. Mussel shells, like sturgeon scales, were also used as knives.
With a food supply as varied as this (and nothing whatever has been surmised), an ordinary meal or an extraordinary feast can readily be re- called, so far as its essential features are concerned. It is now September, and save where the ground has been ruthlessly uptorn, everywhere is a wealth of early autumn bloom. A soothing quiet rests upon the scene,
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bidding us to retrospective thought. Not a bit of stone, of pottery or a burned and blackened fragment of bone but stands out in the mellow sun- shine as the feature of a long forgotten feast. A I dreamily gaze upon the gatherings of half a day, I seem to see that ancient folk that once dwelt in this neglected spot ; seem to be a guest at a pre-Columbian dinner in New Jersey.
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THE MUSKRAT AS A MODERN DAINTY
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Atlantic City.
Chapter till.
"Let's walk up to the Inlet and take a half dozen raw." A common- place suggestion, but how interesting if you care anything about the family affairs of the oyster, especially the famous Absecon oyster of Atlantic City.
A Plate et Absccons To begin with you may be surprised to know that the oyster is a Jersey farm product. The great area of soil which is always coming down the little rivers is the agency which makes the Absecon possible.
The most valuable part of the soil of this great tract of farming land, ultimately finds its way to the bay, in whose quiet waters it makes a long halt on its journey to the ocean, and it is deposited in the form of fine, light, black sediment, known as oyster-mud.
This is just as valuable to man, and just as fit to nourish plants as the mud which settles every year on the wheat fields and rice fields of Egypt. It is a natural fertilizer of inestimable importance, and it is so rich in organic matter that it putrefies in a few hours when exposed to the sun. In the shallow waters of the bay, under the influence of the warm sunlight, it produces a most luxuriant vegetation ; but with few exceptions, the plants which grow upon it are microscopic and invisible, and their very existence is unknown to all except a few naturalists. The oyster obtains the lime for its shell from the water, and while the amount dissolved in each gallon is very small, it extracts enough to provide for the slow growth of the shell. It is very important that the shell be built up as rapidly as possible, for the oyster has many enemies continually on the watch for thin-shelled speci- mens. In the lower part of the bay I have leaned over a wharf and watched the sheepshead moving up and down with their noses close to the piles,
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crushing the shells of the young oysters between their jaws and sucking out the soft bodies.
As I watched them I have seen the juices from the bodies of the little oysters streaming down from the corners of their mouths, to be swept away by the tide.
In order that the oyster may grow rapidly, and may be securely pro- tected from its enemies, it must have lime. The lime in the water of the bay is derived in great part from the springs of the interior, which, flowing through limestone regions, carry some of it away in solution, and this is finally carried down the rivers and into the bay. Some of it is no doubt derived from deposits of rock in the bed of the ocean, and some from the soil along the shores, but the oyster obtains a very considerable portion of its lime in a much more direct way, by the decomposition of old oyster shells. On the oyster-beds an old shell is soon honeycombed by boring
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sponges and other animals, and as soon as the sea-water is thus admitted to its interior, it is rapidly dissolved and diffused. In a few years nothing is left. It has all gone back into a form which makes it available as oyster food, and it soon begins its transformation into new oyster shells. If all the shells could be returned to the beds, this source of supply would be greatly increased.
The full-grown oyster is able to live and flourish in soft mud so long as it is not buried too deeply for the open edge of the shell to reach above the mud and draw a constant supply of water to its gills ; but the oyster embryo would be ingulfed and smothered at once if it were to fall on such a bottom, and in order to have the least chance of survival it must find some solid substance upon which to fasten itself, to preserve it from sinking in the soft mud, or from being buried under it as it shifts with wind and tide. In the deposits which form the soft bottom of sounds and estuaries solid bodies of any sort rarely occur, and the so-called rocks of the Chesapeake
are not ledges or reefs, but accumulations of oyster shells.
The Struggle of Life
A young oyster which settles upon a natural oyster-bed has a much better chance of survival than one which settles anywhere else, and a natural bed thus tends to perpetuate itself and to persist as a definite, well- defined area. As the flood-tide rushes up the channels it stirs up the fine mud which has been deposited in the deep water. The mud is swept up on to the shallows along the shore, and if these are level, much of the sedi- ment settles there. If, however, the flat is covered by groups of oysters, the ebbing tide does not flow off in an even sheet, but is broken up into thousands of small channels, through which the sediment flows down, to be swept out to sea. The oyster-bed thus tends to keep itself clean, and it follows that the more firmly established an oyster-bed is the better is its chance of perpetuation, since the young spat finds more favorable condi- tions where there are oysters, or at least shells already, than it finds any- where else. Now, the practical importance of this description of a natural
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bed is this : Since it tends to remain permanent, because of the presence of oyster shells, the shelling of bottoms where there are no oysters furnishes a means for establishing new beds or for increasing the area of the old ones. The oyster dredgers state, with perfect truth, that by breaking up the crowded clusters of oysters and by scattering the shells, the use of the dredge tends to enlarge the oyster-beds.
Ancient Oyster JBcds
Although the development of this industry on a large scale is quite modern, seed oysters for planting have been raised artificially upon a small scale in Italy for more than a thousand years, by a very simple method. Pliny relates that the artificial breeding of oysters was first undertaken by a Roman knight, Sergius Orata, in the waters of Lake Avernus, and that the enterprise was so successful that its director soon became very rich. At the present day the methods which were introduced, and probably in- vented by Orata, are still employed by the oyster cultivators of Lake Fusaro, a small salt-water lake.
In quite modern times the study of these old methods of oyster culture has resulted in the development of the improved methods which are now employed in France. In 1853, M. De Bon, then Commissioner of Marine, was directed by the Minister to attempt to restock certain exhausted beds by planting new oysters upon them, and during this work, which was perfectly successful, he discovered that, contrary to the general opinion, the oyster can reproduce itself after it has been transplanted to bottoms on which it never before existed, and he at once commenced a series of experi- ments to discover some way to collect the spat emitted by those oysters, and he soon devised a successful apparatus, which consisted of a rough board floor, raised about eight inches above the bottom, near low-tide mark, covered by loose bunches of twigs.
An average Maryland oyster of good size lays about sixteen million eggs, and if half of these were to develop into female oysters, we should have from a single female eight million female descendants in the first
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generation, and in the second, eight million times eight million or 64,000,- 000,000,000. In the third generation we would have eight million times
this or 213,000,000,000.000,000,000. In the fourth, 4,096,000,000,-
Some Calculations 000,000,000,000,000,000. In the fifth, 33,600,000,000,000,000,000,- 000,000,000,000,000,000 female oysters and as many males, or, in all, 66,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Having thus embarked upon the limitless sea of statistical fact I pre- pared to further enhance the appreciation of my companion for the festive and toothsome oyster, but he had fled from the scene. Some people have a strange dislike for concrete knowledge as expressed in numerals.
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Atlantic City. Chapter EET1.
There are frequent points of descent from the Boardwalk to the wide space of shore in front.
The wife and her sister and her cousin have a simultaneous craving to "come unto these yellow sands," and a little fair-complexioned niece A Pen Picture of mine has long had, however she has smothered that longing. So of the JBeach we descend, and soon we have that pleasant sensation (a belt of dry yield- ing dust passed) of standing upon the firm cool sand. Hey, for the treasures of the shore ! Alice must have her shoes and socks off, and be let loose to scamper and to paddle at her will. Let her race about to her heart's con- tent, leaving the wet sands slowly to efface the gleaming prints of her little naked feet, or let her select a firm swell of sand, and with busy spade erect an edifice, while we elders dwell again on the well-worn thought, how, indeed, this is a type of the labor of many a life ; how many spend the hours between morning and evening, just merely in sand-architecture ; then death brims up in full flood, and the shore is empty of them, and all their busy labor is levelled, and has left no mark, and is as though it had never been. For when at last the tide goes down, you shall not discover it ; it was not like a rock wall, that was submerged for a while, but appears when the waters draw off. The builder is not there : " He passed away, and lo ! he was not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." The builder is gone, and his works do follow him. There is nothing to show in eternity for all the long and careful labors of time.
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