SAND DUNES AND SALT MARSHES 



rounded or oval islands, some of them covered 

 with trees, while in the Castle Neck River is 

 a small circular gravel island so low that it 

 is all but overtopped at high tide. 



Aside from the thin coating of soil and veg- 

 etation, Hog Island shows scarcely any evi- 

 dence of change by wind, water or frost that 

 have been acting on it since it emerged from 

 the glacier's bed. We are indeed very close 

 to the glacial period, and the interest in arc- 

 tic life and adventure, an interest which is 

 common among northern people, and extends 

 even to the delicate of both sexes, is, perhaps, 

 an inheritance from the times when glaciers 

 spread far down among the homes of our an- 

 cestors. 



" Some old gray witch that I cannot see 



Has placed her charm in the storm and snow; 

 The Great White Silence is calling me, 

 The Long Trail beckons, and I must go." 



Shaler in writing from Florida said: ** The 

 nearer I get to the tropics the more I turn 

 with pleasure to our grim northern clime." 



It is well that this love of the ice, which is 

 often incomprehensible to those of southern 



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