Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . Photo b)- Louis Kaufcann and Sons, Baltimore SAND DUNES AND LIGHT HOUSE, CAPE HEXLOPEN. TURX-BASIX AT SALISBURY COUNTY TOWNS AND OTHERS business buildings, many of them mere make-shifts, though most of them busy day and the presence of the harbor, one almost forgetseven the odor of mountainous oyster-shell heaps,over which plane flocks of buzzards, foreverdisappointed at the Barmecide feast, stubbornlyhopeful that behind the strong appeal to a singlesense there must be something really substan-tial
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . Photo b)- Louis Kaufcann and Sons, Baltimore SAND DUNES AND LIGHT HOUSE, CAPE HEXLOPEN. TURX-BASIX AT SALISBURY COUNTY TOWNS AND OTHERS business buildings, many of them mere make-shifts, though most of them busy day and the presence of the harbor, one almost forgetseven the odor of mountainous oyster-shell heaps,over which plane flocks of buzzards, foreverdisappointed at the Barmecide feast, stubbornlyhopeful that behind the strong appeal to a singlesense there must be something really substan-tial. Crisfield builds much of its business areaby dumping into the shallows oyster-shells fromwhich has been extracted the meat, to be cannedfor the consumption of inlanders less fastidiousthan Eastern Shore folk as to the age of theoyster they eat. As to the business district,where among other curious things one finds aterrapin farm peopled by diamond-backs thatcome to dinner at the tinkling of bells, it is a sortof tiny vulgar Venice, not without a picturesque-ness of its own, due to the grouping of crudestructures along the water front, the canals andtheir bridges, the
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