. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. '^^w 50 BLOWING THE FOG HORN. !. i i ^ ' â¢â .. I )^, rl' â¢ii * passage, at high tide, between these two islands, is but very shallow at best, and not fit for vessels to go between. From a square white tower on the northern part of the island, a fixed light, sixty feet above the sea, and visible fourteen miles, shines by night. We heard the half hour gun, from this same quarter, during the fogâit is also fired during dense snowstorms â all the time we were anchored;
. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. '^^w 50 BLOWING THE FOG HORN. !. i i ^ ' â¢â .. I )^, rl' â¢ii * passage, at high tide, between these two islands, is but very shallow at best, and not fit for vessels to go between. From a square white tower on the northern part of the island, a fixed light, sixty feet above the sea, and visible fourteen miles, shines by night. We heard the half hour gun, from this same quarter, during the fogâit is also fired during dense snowstorms â all the time we were anchored; and far into the night its heavy and loud boom echoed to our ears with a dull thundering roar. Our hunting, not as successful as it might have been, brought several species of birds to our notice, but our wet clothes called for more attention than our birds, for the time being, while we dried ourselves as well as we could under the circumstances. The next morning as the fog cleared away the clink, clink, clinkety clink, of the anchor chain, as all hands heaved at the patent windlass, sounded merrily (it was about six o'clock) on the otherwise quite still air, and before long we were dashing along with a breeze that had by this time nearly cleared the air of fog, though it was soon on us again as thick as ever; but we were past the dangerous shoals and in free water, so we kept on our course, and let the thick fog come on again. Little we cared for it although we kept the old tin fog horn, with its toot-toot-toot, and toctety toot, going all the morning. A vessel's fog horn is an old fashioned institution, and consists of a tin horn similar to that used by venders of fish, yeast, and other articles of street com- merce ; or by the noisy college student in his rows between classes or his midnight music, of horrid notoriety, at home. The main dif- ference is that the tin is unpainted or unvarnished, and the whole horn shorter and less clumsy. Any one can blow it, and on thi
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