Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . s early in 1922. CHAPTER XIVISLANDS OF THE CHESAPEAKE IF the St. Lawrence has its *ThousandIslands, the Chesapeake has its ten thou-sand. Delaware Bay has fewer, indeed very fewthat compare in human interest and historicsignificance with many of the the more famous islands of DelawareBay are Pea Patch, on which stands thehistoric Fort Delaware at the very head of thebay, long a useless monument of the past, now amodern fortification correlated with batterieson the New Jersey shore to domina

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Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . s early in 1922. CHAPTER XIVISLANDS OF THE CHESAPEAKE IF the St. Lawrence has its *ThousandIslands, the Chesapeake has its ten thou-sand. Delaware Bay has fewer, indeed very fewthat compare in human interest and historicsignificance with many of the the more famous islands of DelawareBay are Pea Patch, on which stands thehistoric Fort Delaware at the very head of thebay, long a useless monument of the past, now amodern fortification correlated with batterieson the New Jersey shore to dominate the shipchannel, Reedy Island, the Roet Island of theDutch, now the site of the Quarantine Station,and Bombay Hook Island, once the patrimonyof that early Bayard who for a time cast his lotAvith the Labadists. Sheltered behind theSouthern extremity of Assateague, the longnarrow peninsula dropped like a plumblineseventy miles Southward from the South-eastern corner of Delaware, is Chincoteague,the most important and interesting island ofAccomack; and from Chincoteague downward 208.

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