The Pine-tree coast . get in perfection the pungent exhalations of briny ocean, mingledwith the warm, resinous odor of the pines. We are soon traversing a broader reach of smooth water, trending off inland,with miniature capes, reefs, and This presently narrows again,between a rising crag and low-jutting point of rocks, to a width of not morethan fifty yards. It is a mere split filled with a rushing tide. Through thiscontracted channel the current pours with such force and swiftness that we arecarried along with it, like a feather in the air, to be launched out upon thequiet water
The Pine-tree coast . get in perfection the pungent exhalations of briny ocean, mingledwith the warm, resinous odor of the pines. We are soon traversing a broader reach of smooth water, trending off inland,with miniature capes, reefs, and This presently narrows again,between a rising crag and low-jutting point of rocks, to a width of not morethan fifty yards. It is a mere split filled with a rushing tide. Through thiscontracted channel the current pours with such force and swiftness that we arecarried along with it, like a feather in the air, to be launched out upon thequiet water below, with just a little tension of the nerves to show that theepisode is not without its excitement. After going through this Upper HellGate, as it is called, all is smooth and quiet again. He was a bold navigator who first pushed his bark into this tortuous rapid!If Champlain was not that man, he is, at any rate, the first to give us anaccount of it; and a most amusing one it is. But let him tell the story himself:. THE PILOT. BOOTHBAY AND ABOUT THERE. 197 We passed a very narrow water-fall, but only with great difficulty; foralthough we had a favorable and fresh wind, and trimmed our sails to receiveit as well as possible, in order to see whether we could not pass it in that way,we were obliged to attach a hawser to some trees on shore and all pull on this way we succeeded in passing it. The savages accompanying us carriedtheir canoes by land, being unable to row them. I was greatly surprised by thisfall, since as we descended with the tide we found it in our favor, but contraryto us when we came to the fall. But after we had passed it, it descendedas before, which gave us great satisfaction.
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