Striped Bass Fishing 



dency to run into tufts and little hillocks, 

 interspersed with quantities of field-daisies, 

 golden-rod, purple Michaelmas daisies, and 

 other wild-flowers. As the eye wanders 

 over the hills, huge travelling bowlders are 

 seen ; and the thought of glacial action, as 

 the creator of these islands, is suggested, 

 and the suggestion becomes a conviction 

 as palpable moraines are seen stretching 

 in regular lines across the valleys and hills. 

 Along the cliffs which front the Sound, 

 the whole water-front is broken with 

 bowlders, wholly and partly submerged ; 

 and the shore itself is so entirely a mass 

 of rocks, from the smallest size up to a 

 number having more than a thousand cu- 

 bic feet of contents, that the conviction is 

 forced upon one that these islands were, 

 so far as we can surmise, formed by the 

 huge glaciers that Agassiz tells us once 

 covered this portion of our globe, and 

 which in their steady march into the ocean 

 ploughed up, shoved ahead, and deposited, 

 as they melted, these masses of land now 

 the subject of man. 



After proceeding a half-mile from the 

 house and turning onto the shore we found, 

 under the shadow of a huge, square mass 

 of granite, half-way between the hill and 

 water, the " chummer " busily arranging 

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