Forest and stream . KNICKERBOCKER Y. C. fleet of the K. Y. C-reached Newport on July 20 after a very pleasant orutse through theSound, and disbanded there. July 22, 1886.] FOREST AND STREAM. 819 CRUISE OF THE COOT. XXV, IT was early in the forenoon when the Coot reaehed down from hernights anchorage in Broad Creek to the North River light, andworked out against a lisht s utuerly breeze. The narrow passage ismarked by a midchannel buoy at each end, but I could find no tracesof the inner one. Many of the beacons and marks in the Sound hadbeen carried away by the heavy ice of the win
Forest and stream . KNICKERBOCKER Y. C. fleet of the K. Y. C-reached Newport on July 20 after a very pleasant orutse through theSound, and disbanded there. July 22, 1886.] FOREST AND STREAM. 819 CRUISE OF THE COOT. XXV, IT was early in the forenoon when the Coot reaehed down from hernights anchorage in Broad Creek to the North River light, andworked out against a lisht s utuerly breeze. The narrow passage ismarked by a midchannel buoy at each end, but I could find no tracesof the inner one. Many of the beacons and marks in the Sound hadbeen carried away by the heavy ice of the winter, the light at Roan-oke River being knocked off its lees, and all the stakes gone in CoreS?•uud. Strange to say, the Lighthouse Service has been slow toreplace the marks, contrary to its usual despatch iu such matersSeveral vessels were lost in consequence One schooner was spittedon the submerged iron socket of a stake in Core Sound and destination of the Coot was Elizabeth City, at the head of the. A SOUNDER11—BEFORE THE WIND, Pasquotank River, the first met with, steering west. From NorthRiver the shore can b~ follower pretty close, passing half wav be-tween it and Wanes Point Light, erec ed on a long sandspit juttingacross the month of the Pa^quorank, after which beacons properlypainted will pilot you afely up tbe river, the city opening to viewupon ronudiDg Brickhouse Point. The wind had increased to theregulation mild gale from E., and the Coot went flying before it
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