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CURRENTS. 
Over the Pocomoke beds the general set of the ebb current 
is westerly until it reaches the shoal between and south of. 
Broad and Apes Hole Creeks, where it turns to the southward 
into the main channel. 
The majority of the observations of the ebb current were 
made during moderate northeasterly breezes but the direction 
seems to have been but little influenced by them, though the 
strength probably was, as at high and low water by the tide 
tables, when there should have been no perceptible current, 
one was observed of from 0.1 to 0.2 of a mile an hour. The 
maximum strength observed was 0.5 of a mile per hour. 
The flood current sets northeast over the beds and has a 
maximum strength of 0.5 of a mile per hour and is but very 
slightly influenced in direction by the wind. 
In the main channel of the Sound below the Shell Pocks 
and over the Muddy Marsh Pocks, the flood current sets to 
the northward, following the general direction of the channel. 
The maximum strength of this current, when uninfluenced 
by the wind, was 0.45 of a mile per hour. 
Ho observations of the strength of the ebb current were 
made in the main channel but it is probably equal, or of 
slightly greater strength, than the flood and sets to the south- 
ward. Over the Bird and Hern Island Pocks the flood cur- 
rent sets to the northward and eastward into Messongo and 
Guilford Creeks, with a maximum velocity, when uninflu- 
enced by the wind, of 0.24 of a mile per hour. The ebb sets 
to the southward and westward, curving to the southward as 
it becomes influenced by the main current, with a maximum 
velocity of 0.4 of a mile per hour. 
Horth of the Guilford Flats the flood sets northeasterly to- 
ward Muddy Creek. The maximum velocity observed during 
light northerly breezes was 0.3 of a mile per hour. South of 
the Guilford Flats the current follows the general direction 
of the channel, the flood having a tendency towards Hunting 
Creek, where the channel into Guilford Creek joins the latter. 
