Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes 



CHAPTER I 



SAND DUNES 



" Till the sand was blown and sifted 

 Like great snowdrifts o'er the landscape, 

 Heaping all the shore with sand dunes." 



— Longfellow. 



SAND dunes have a fascination all tlieir 

 own. In the multiplicity of their forms 

 and colors, varying with the seasons and 

 years, they are a constant source of pleasure, 

 while in their wealth of plant and animal life 

 their interest is never-ending. The beauty of 

 the sand dunes is revealed at every turn, their 

 secrets are legion. The course of their forma- 

 tion from the time the}^ emerge out of the sea 

 as reefs washed by every tide, until they have 

 reached perfection in their wave-like crests 

 fifty feet high is an absorbing study. Their 



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