DR. GALE’S HOUSE The South From 
standing amid an ample lawn studded with 
gigantic trees. 
Once clear of the shallows that vex Poco- 
moke Sound, the vessel finds herself with 
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plenty of water beneath her keel, for although 
to the unpracticed eye of the Northerner the 
Pocomoke seems nothing more than a little 
tidal creek, it is in truth a genuine river, and 
