. Guide leaflet. A barnacle extending itsfeathery feet from its lime-stone wiswam Creatures of the Sandy Beach At the left on the oppositepage are two pictures of}iatica, the sand collar snail,which hides in mound-shapedburrows or crawls over thesand, pushing its fleshy apronbefore it. Next comes alady crab up to her eyes insand; a sand bug preparingto dig in; a rock crab, andfinally another lady crab show-ing its paddle-shaped hind legs 6 XATCRAL HISTORY shows great variation. Along tlio exposedsandy shores of southern New England itranges from two to five feet in height,except wliere the inc
. Guide leaflet. A barnacle extending itsfeathery feet from its lime-stone wiswam Creatures of the Sandy Beach At the left on the oppositepage are two pictures of}iatica, the sand collar snail,which hides in mound-shapedburrows or crawls over thesand, pushing its fleshy apronbefore it. Next comes alady crab up to her eyes insand; a sand bug preparingto dig in; a rock crab, andfinally another lady crab show-ing its paddle-shaped hind legs 6 XATCRAL HISTORY shows great variation. Along tlio exposedsandy shores of southern New England itranges from two to five feet in height,except wliere the incoming seas are forcedinto narrowing bodies of water hke LongIsland Sound, where it rises six to sevenfeet, as at New Haven and Bridgeport. HitiH Tides and Low On the outer side of Cape Cod, the riseis but two feet, but the masses of waterthat crowd into Cape Cod Bay reach ninefeet at Plymouth. North of Boston thisheight continues, becoming gradually in-creased along the Maine coast. The Gulfof ]Maine is a huge, c
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