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across the river, two miles, is Millstone, a 
hamlet and express office, where you can get 
wet goods of all descriptions. 
The Inquirer made Solomons Island her 
headquarters for a week. There were numer¬ 
ous short cruises in the river, and one up to 
Benedict, a village twenty miles up which dates 
from the seventeenth century, and which never 
changes except when a periodical fire sweeps 
away a portion of the town. 
On the Sunday after her arrival it was de¬ 
cided to try a short cruise to Salisbury, on the 
eastern shore, up the Wicomico River and fifty- 
five miles from the mouth of the Patuxent. A 
start was made a little after 7 in the morning. 
The wind was strong from the southeast and 
the sea was very choppy. The course is down 
past Cedar Point, the southern entrance to the 
Patuxent, and thence across the bay to Hooper 
Straits, which lie between flat islands, bounded 
by numerous and extensive shoals. Tangier 
Sound, into which the straits open, is a shallow 
body of water, and then there is an estuary 
called Monie Bay, into which the Wicomico 
empties. Here the shoals are so extensive that 
you have to steer carefully by the buoys. 
Coming back that night it’ was extremely 
difficult to find the channel, and the boat was 
run at half speed much of the way from the 
mouth of the river to the straits. Even then 
if the skipper had not known the way the In¬ 
quirer, though she draws less than four feet, 
would have piled on a sandbar, for there were 
several times when her propeller sucked bottom. 
The Wicomico is a very narrow stream and 
you have to keep in the very middle of the 
river. There was a head tide all the way up, 
but Salisbury, which is at the head of naviga¬ 
tion, was reached before 2 oclock. 
There is not much to see in the towfi except 
signs of thrift and pretty houses, the town be¬ 
ing the center of the lumber industry on the 
eastern shore. Some of the party taken from 
Solomon’s Island had friends to call upon, and 
it was after 6 when the start back was made, 
and by this time the tide was on the flood. Still 
the boat was back at Solomon's Island by 1 
o'clock in the morning. 
The return 'journey north was to be made 
by way of the eastern shore, and a start for 
Cambridge was made at 2 o’clock in the after¬ 
noon of Aug. 2. There was some slight engine 
trouble just as the boat reached the mouth of 
the Patuxent, and this caused half an hour’s 
delay. Then when the boat got outside of 
Drum Point, she got the full force of a south¬ 
easter on her starboard side, accompanied by 
the biggest sea encountered during the trip. 
Glass and crockery not securely stowed away 
began to do some smashing, and the discom¬ 
fort continued all the way to Sharpe’s Island, at 
the mouth of the Choptank River. At this 
point a big hotel was built a few years ago, but 
abandoned because the steamboats refused to 
call there. It seems that most of the patrons 
of the place would go there for the season, and 
this made so little traffic that the steamboats 
lost money by calling. 
Cambridge is about fifteen miles up the Chop- 
tank, a very pretty, wide river, whose banks are 
beginning to be lined with fine summer resi¬ 
dences. The town is a rival to Salisbury for 
the name of metropolis of the Eastern Shore 
and is an oyster shucking and packing center. 
The roads leading out into the country are built 
of oyster shells. There is a lot of business 
there, and provisions are very cheap. 
The journey northward was resumed about 
II o'clock on the morning of Aug. 3, and the 
southeaster was still blowing. After the boat 
had got out of the river the wind was behind 
her. In the mouth of the Choptank were sev¬ 
eral boats fishing with seines, and a small 
schooner was sailing about looking for a school 
of fish. Each of the boats was hailed in the 
hope of getting fresh fish, but none had made 
a catch. The run up the bay to the Elk River 
was without incident and the Inquirer cast 
anchor at the mouth of Back Creek at 9 o’clock. 
The next morning a start was made at half 
past 5 for Chesapeake City, and the canal was 
entered within half an hour. There was little 
traffic, but along the bank until the Delaware 
line was reached could be seen numerous 
bungalows and tents. 
Delaware City was reached about 9, and here 
provisions were obtained. But there is one 
thing the voyager must be prepared to do with¬ 
out on such a cruise, and that is cream. Milk 
is easy to get everywhere, and at Delaware City 
half a gallon was purchased for 8 cents. 
The stop at Dalaware City was not long, and 
running up the Delaware River the Inquirer 
made Burlington, N. J., by 5 o’clock. Here 
the first and only squall of the cruise was en¬ 
countered. 
It was about 6 o’clock the next morning 
that the journey was resumed, and soon the 
boat entered the canal at Bordentown. There 
are said to be fourteen locks on the Raritan 
Canal, but you soon lose count of them. They 
tell you that the speed allowed is only four 
miles but are apt to add that on the ten- and 
eighteen-mile levels. You can make more if 
you do not wash the banks too much. The 
Inquirer's skipper took the hint and made good 
time when possible. 
Traffic on the canal seemed to be almost at a 
standstill. Not half a dozen canalboats were 
met, and there were three yachts, one from 
Chesapeake City which had been at Solomon's 
Island the week before, and which had had to 
unstep her foremast on account , of a drawless 
railroad bridge. 
Trenton proved an excellent place in which 
to do marketing and to buy cream. One stop 
was made afterward at a hamlet called Port 
Mercer and another to take some pictures of 
the boat, and except for the locks, which were 
not really so numerous as to be annoying, the 
sensation of passing above the level of most 
of the surrounding country was of uninterrupted 
pleasure. 
It was after 4 o’clock when New Brunswick, 
where the canal ends, was reached, and here 
the Inquirer locked out and drew up along the 
bank to take in gasoline. Then the way was 
resumed down the Raritan River and up across 
Raritan and New York bays, and anchor was 
cast in Gravesend Bay a little after 9. The run 
up to Riverside was made the next morning in 
four hours and a half. 
Calculations by the chart showed that during 
her cruise the Inquirer had covered about 800 
miles. As for the expense the principal item 
was for gasoline. A total of 450 gallons ot 
gasoline and seventeen gallons of oil were con¬ 
sumed. The former cost a few cents over $70, 
while the oil cost about $9. For canal toll the 
charges were $6.50 each way in the Raritan 
Canal and $4 each way in the Chesapeake and 
Delaware. When the boat was tied up or lay 
at anchor in the daytime the ice melted fast, 
and 1.300 pounds was bought in the sixteen 
days, though the actual weight of this was not 
over half a ton. 
The provisions for this cruise cost slightly 
over $100, though during several days at Solo¬ 
mon’s Island the party ate on shore in a private 
residence. 
At Solomon’s Island a sailmaker was found 
who made several awnings at less than half the 
price they could be obtained for in New York, 
and in anticipation of hot weather on the canals 
a tent awning was made for stretching over a 
part of the upper deck. The weather was so 
cool, however, that this proved hardly neces¬ 
sary. though it did come in handy as a shelter, 
enabling such as wished to sleep out on deck 
at night. A. S. Crockett. 
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