Aug. 4, 1906.] 
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CAPE SPLIT, 200 FEET HIGH. 
again. The wind failed as we got out into the 
current, and we swirled along in the grayness 
trying all the lime to make (he north shore before 
being swept by the anchorage. Finally, the lead 
showed 7 fathoms, soft bottom, and a drift to the 
S.W. The tinkle of a sheep bell and voices came 
faintly from shoreward. A hail brought the an¬ 
swer that we were 2 miles above the anchorage. 
So we let her drift for 20 minutes, then anchored 
in about 3 fathoms, low water, and turned in. 
The next morning opened clear and at 6 o’clock 
McClellan appeared on the wharf with a big 
bunch of letters, the larger number of which, one 
for each day since we had left Winter Harbor, 
were eagerly waited for by the midshipman, who 
forthwith disappeared below and was no more 
seen for several hours, when he appeared with a 
fat letter and wanted to be put ashore at once 
to post it. Fog and calm all day. 
Aug. 7.—Blew fresh from E. all night until 
3 130, when the wind suddenly shifted to W.N.W. 
and then went around to S.W. About this time 
a consciousness that something was wrong woke 
the skipper. He went on deck and found that 
Istar, evidently in a hurry to get home, had taken 
matters into her own hands and was walking off 
with her anchor, flukes first. She had gone un¬ 
comfortably close to the cliffs of Cape Spencer, 
so sail was hurriedly made and she was worked 
off into the channelway and the fog. 
The Nova Scotia coast from Scotsman’s Bay 
BLUFF AT WEST BAY—SIDE VIEW. 
to Digby Gut takes a general trend of W. by S. 
For about 35 miles the shore line is mostly per¬ 
pendicular cliffs about 100ft. high, the land 
reaching an elevation of 400 to 600ft. 2 or 3 miles 
from the sea. There is no harbor along the 
whole distance, though at several points piers 
have been built to facilitate the shipping of cord 
wood. Small vessels can run in to the eastern 
side of these piers at high water, be protected 
from the sea, and lie on the rocks at low tide. 
In calm weather anchorage can be made any¬ 
where close to shore, though there is apt to be 
a disagreeable roll. 
We drifted along this coast in fcg and calm, 
having to anchor each time the tide made against 
us, and after two days and half of the second 
night felt our way through Digby Gut and up to 
POINT PRIM. 
an anchorage off Digby pier. The fog cleared 
at 10:30 the next morning, so that we could 
make a berth inside the pier in 1F2 fathoms. 
Thick fog outside all day. 
Digby Gut, the entrance to the Annapolis 
Basin, is a narrow opening half a mile in breadth 
with deep water aiicl shores steep-to. The tidal 
currents sweep through at a 5-mile rate, causing 
various whirlpools and boils. The high precipit¬ 
ous hills on either hand are soberly picturesque 
in their trimming of twisted and bent white 
birch and fir. The Annapolis Basin is a fair 
stretch of water with swift tides and many 
treacherous bars and shallows. Digby is a town 
of some 1,200 inhabitants and mainly remarkable 
for its hotels and tourists. 
At 6 A. M. Aug. 11 there was a fresh S.S.W. 
wind and we got under way.for the run of 50 
miles across the bay to Quoddy. We soon found 
that we could not get out through the Gut until 
after the beginning of the ebb, for the high hills 
at the entrance shut off all the wind. When the 
tide turned at about 9 we got out and soon found 
the wind again off Point Prim. Wind fresh 
W.SAV- Thick fog. Moderate rolling sea. Tide 
running to the S. of W. 2 miles an hour. Set 
log and made a course for the north end of Grand 
Manan Island, making allowance for tide and 
plotting position on the chart at the end of each 
hour. 
At 3 P. M. were in the clear streak usually 
found off the north end of Grand Manan; tide 
beginning to run flood with a heavy swell in 
Quoddv Channel, and Quoddy Head only 5 miles 
away. We were not destined to make it that day, 
however, for in a few minutes we had run into a 
marvellously thick fog like condensed steam, so 
that we could hardly see Istar’s length. The 
skipper did not at once appreciate its signifi¬ 
cance, but Seabury did and said: “We’ll have a 
stiff squall, sir.” We had it. By the time sail 
was shortened to a close-reefed mainsail we 
didn’t know exactly where we were, and Quoddy 
was out of the question. So we ran off N.N.W., 
hoping to make the eastern end of Campobello. 
Picked up first a black precipitous rock rising 
from a smother of surf, came about and ran ou: 
a bit, then went in N.N.W. again and soon af.er 
ran sharply out of the fog into a clear beautiful 
air a mile from Head Harbor. Shook out reefs 
and made De Lute Harbor at 7 P. M. 
The next few days were spent in Passama- 
quocldy Bay and on the Magaguadavic River, 
which we explored from its mouth at Midjik 
Bluff to Lake Utopia. The river is a lovely 
stream with a fine gorge about half way up 
around which it is necessary to portage. This 
gorge was a surprise to us, as there is nothing 
on the chart to indicate that the river is not navi¬ 
gable to the lake. 
On Aug. 14 Quoddy Flead was passed. We 
were again in the waters of the United States, 
and a month later were entering the basin at 
Greenport, brown and happy and sorry that 
summer could not last always. 
Great South Bay Y. R. A. 
Westhampton, L. I.—July 28. 
Under good weather conditions the boats of the Great 
South Bay Y. R. A., composed of the following yacht 
clubs: YYesthampton, Shinnecock, Quantuck, Moriches 
and Ponquoge, sailed a very interesting race. The win¬ 
ners were as follows: 
Class AA. 
Elapsed. 
Memory, Mr. Growtage . 1 31 09 
Orange, C. D. Brower . 1 32 52 
Rainbow, E. Reynolds. 1 32 56 
Class BB. 
Tiger Lily, E. Flynn. 1 34 31 
Scalpen . 1 34 44 
Adelaide, T. Conlin . 1 36 36 
In the special class Miss Marchwald’s Betsy was first, 
H. Foreman’s • Gus I! second and P. Benjamin’s Risk 
third. 
In Class B YV. C. Atwater. Jr.’s, Sunbeam, A. Muller’s 
Eugenia and E. Spink's Esperance ' were first, second 
and third, the corrected times being 1:42:10, 1:42:59 and 
1:43:16, respectively. 
BLUFF AT YVEST BAY—FRONT VIEW. 
“The strata, seeming almost vertically and perpendicu¬ 
lar to the face, have weathered into a series of slides, 
separated by high walls of crumbling rock.” Note the 
midshipman trying to climb up. 
