THE NORTH CAROLINA FIELD 



XAMINING a map of North Carolina, one 

 finds a long - , narrow strip of land that, ex- 

 tending- southward from the Virginia shore, 

 hounds more than half the coast line of the 

 state. This sandy barrier, more than two hundred miles 

 long, and formed by the action of waves, is wide and per- 

 manent enough effectually to shut off from the sea a 

 series of large, shallow sounds. On the north is the nar- 

 row Currituck Sound. This communicates at its south- 

 ern end with Albemarle Sound, that reaches inward from 



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