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is carried further inland by the winds. The most violent winds on this — 
coast blow from the points between the northwest and the east; and ‘4 
besides, a gentle easterly breeze prevails the whole summer, during some “a 
part of almost every day. This easterly wind, which is in fact a trade 4 
wind, is felt as high as Williamsburg. "It is said to be felt, at this day,’ 
health and coolness over a portion of lower Virginia, which is now con- 4 
sidered as extremely unhealthy. . a 
ese easterly winds blowing during the driest and hottest season of 4 
the year, carry forward the greatest quantity of sand, and have amassed 
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hills, whi xtend about a mile from the beach. The natural level a 
of the land, elevated little more than 10 feet above high-water mark, 4 
has a very gentle declivity to the east. Iti 8 * of about five 
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discharge to the ocean, it would probably be perfectly dry; this, how- 
i the eand hills prevent, and the water is discharged into the sea to 
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_ Swamp. Lynnhaven creek is the most considerable of these drains. 
The swamp, or as the neighboring inhabitants call it, the Desert, 1s 
Overgrown with aquatic trees and shrubs; the gum, (JZ. styraciflua) 
the cypress (Cup. disticha) the maple (Acer rubrum) the tree improperly 
alled the sycamore (Platanus ocidentalis) the Magnolia glauca, the wax 
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wn the bank into the swamp. J 
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gle of 45°. By gradual accumulation, the hill climbs up their trunks, 
ee speak only of the coast 
aoe , : wie of Virginia at Cape Henry; for although I have the 
a 3 the same natural process has produced all the sand banks, 
pone git from the Delaware to Florida : I have only examined that 
ee Be past Which is the subject of the present memoir. : 
‘aye ively mean a piece of ground, the surface of whi 
which has a sound bottom. In this it differs from 
