40 OPENING OF HATTER AS INLET. 



" 1764. A chart of the sea coast having been made by Daniel Dun- 

 bibbin, was this year published by his widow, to whom the legislature 

 allowed a small premium." 



This last information seems to indicate that the charts 

 of Mouzin 1775, Atlantic Neptune 1780, and Lewis 1795 

 (mentioned before) are, as regards an inlet between Cape 

 Hatteras and Ocracoke Inlet entirely wrong, and are simply 

 copies of Wimble's or some other older chart. The letter 

 of Mr. Quidley, received in April through Col. Whitford 

 and Gov. Jarvis, was dated at Hatteras Inlet, N. C., Apr. 

 7, 1884, and says : 



"I will say in regard to your request, that Hatteras Inlet was cut 

 out by a heavy gale, a violent storm on the 7th of Sept., at night, 

 1846. The first vessel that passed through into Pamlico Sound, was 

 schooner Asher C. Havens, on the 5th day of Feb'y, 1847, Capt. David 

 Barrett, Commander : I was pilot of said schooner, conducted her 

 through all safe. No other vessel had ever passed through the Inlet. 



The first vessel that ever crossed over the bar of Hatteras Inlet was 

 in Jan., '47. I -was then a licensed pilot for Ocracoke Inlet, got on 

 board to pilot the schooner into Ocracoke, wind came ahead, I went 

 into Hatteras Inlet for harbor, stayed all night, went out next morn- 

 ing and went into Ocracoke. I cannot give any correct report what 

 time the first vessel passed out, it was not long after the first passed 

 through ; the second vessel passed through about two weeks after the 

 first, it was a small steamer bound through Core Sound, I piloted it 

 through." 



In another letter to the writer of this, Mr. Quidley says : 



" I was licensed to pilot at Ocracoke Inlet in 1831 ; I then lived at 

 Hatteras and when I piloted a vessel in at Ocracoke, which very often 

 would be two, three, or four a week, and walked home to Hatteras, 

 there was nothing to cause me or any one, to have any idea that there 

 would be an inlet there, sooner than any other part of the beach ; 

 there was no water passed over the place except in those heavy east- 

 erly gales, when as a general thing it passes over nearly all our beach 

 from Hatteras to Ocracoke. The day the inlet was cut out, there were 

 several families living where the inlet is now, they had no more 

 thought of seeing an inlet there, than of any part of the beach, but 

 to their great surprise, in the morning they saw the sea and sound 



