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SHALLOWS OF THE COAST.
ships can sail without danger; but there are others very near to the surface of the water, over which the waves incessantly break. It is these
banks, hardly below the level of the sea, which are the most dreaded;
and the English and American sailors, thinking of the fate that perhaps
awaits them on these hidden sands, have gayly given them the ironical
name of "frying-pans." In wide-mouthed gulfs and along straight coasts
the sea endeavors to construct s new shores by means of deposits of mud.
The remains of sea-weed and animalculse, mixed with sand and clay, are
deposited in deep layers on the coast, and cause the outline of the shores
to advance gradually. Mud has been accumulated by hundreds and tens
of thousands of millions of cubic yards since the historical era in the
ancient Gulf of Poitou, in the Gulf of Carentan, situated at the foot of
Fig. 82.—Gulf of Carentan.
the peninsula of the Cotentin, in the bays of the Marquenterre and of
Flanders, in certain estuaries of the Netherlands and of Friesland. In
these parts the sea and the land are mingled; the sea, gray or yellowish,
resembles an immense slough, and continues the oozy surface of the
shores. One does not know where the water terminates, or where the
plain of mud, incessantly stirred by the tidal wave, begins. Still, the
| Title | The ocean, atmosphere, and life |
| Creator | Reclus, Elisée |
| Publisher | Harper |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1873 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000194 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | SHALLOWS OF THE COAST. ships can sail without danger; but there are others very near to the surface of the water, over which the waves incessantly break. It is these banks, hardly below the level of the sea, which are the most dreaded; and the English and American sailors, thinking of the fate that perhaps awaits them on these hidden sands, have gayly given them the ironical name of "frying-pans." In wide-mouthed gulfs and along straight coasts the sea endeavors to construct s new shores by means of deposits of mud. The remains of sea-weed and animalculse, mixed with sand and clay, are deposited in deep layers on the coast, and cause the outline of the shores to advance gradually. Mud has been accumulated by hundreds and tens of thousands of millions of cubic yards since the historical era in the ancient Gulf of Poitou, in the Gulf of Carentan, situated at the foot of Fig. 82.—Gulf of Carentan. the peninsula of the Cotentin, in the bays of the Marquenterre and of Flanders, in certain estuaries of the Netherlands and of Friesland. In these parts the sea and the land are mingled; the sea, gray or yellowish, resembles an immense slough, and continues the oozy surface of the shores. One does not know where the water terminates, or where the plain of mud, incessantly stirred by the tidal wave, begins. Still, the |
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