The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-03
Our Nevasink Correspondence.
THohPsoN's ATLANTIC PAVILION, I
NuyAMK HGHLANDs NJ j. July 30 1857.

Our NevAsink Correspondence.
THoNPsoN's ATLANTIC PAVILION,
NSvAsuK HIGHLANDS ~ j., July &c. 1857.
Notice Mariners-Resouces in Bad Weater-Any Port
SormPscalarties Of The Neo Jersey Coast Costaaay Re
curing Changes in lis Features ThurloD Weed Visit Of
Exploration Shrers6y-Physica Geography of the Sea as
Studied from the Wisdo,os Of the Atlantic Partition, &c, %c
thick sndehiDing Worcester, which has been brewing
for several days. having opened hre this morning. win
every appearance Of lasting till The month or August the
question reours, What's to be done2" sail In such
gale would be moral insaniy-a drive over me ha's
in closed carriage the essence Of stupidity; and an OK
peYasn of the woods for blackberres In such weather
would give even Jersey oysterman bis death OF cold
We don't psy billiards. tired Of ten pins, We have
read up all the city morning daies, including the latest
news from Europe and the latest from White street, the
Conover case, the Tammany democracy and Madeline
emh. We have read all the advertisements In Jersey
country paper Of june and have actually listened 10 half
chapter Of Dobb's sensation story" and hence
the question recuYs, What's 70 be done ?" Write let
tor to the Herald Good sob, that mine enemy would
write book.
Since last summer, the old Atlantic has been cutting
into another job of work for the coast survey In these
ters This inlet which from Sandy hook down divided
from the main ocean by mere aevage OF sand, Is one
OF remarkable curioshes which line the seabosrd
from this point 70 Cape May, and then ag AIN from the
this Shire wsbury inlet is about half mile vide; milo
above expands into two lakelike bays, each eight
ten miles In length and from one to three miles wide
Three miles below this house this inlet widens rapidly
into the Broad capacouS bay TO the Of Sandy Hook
The consequence Is rapid flush and ebb tide along the
four five miles OF the narrow part Of the inlet which
keeps open and which the sand flats where the
stream expandra nd the current 10 lost Hence the
siy to the shteh draft steamboat Of coming in and going
ont before the tide goes down.
But snce last summer very surprising change has
taken place. rot in the river called but in the ,evage
of sand which divides from the Last summer, op
posite this place. and for several miles along the Shore
this sevage Of sand was more than four hundred yards
vide and from the accumulation ri, Of tnsls at at
many years. Bat the other day, In going over
TO the beach, the surprising fact Instantly apparent
that within year IRE than half of this narrow pc
ninsula had been washed Off The conclusion, too,
instantly suggested that at this rate Of abrasion the storms
Of another wiater will wa.h his hole barrier away and
thus these inland bays will be opened to The full swe of
tho Atlantic from the eastward Sapposing this cone,
what will be the Consequences These inland bays may
be bockaded with chipping sands or widened and deep
cred from the direct presence OF the sea into commercial
barbore All that is required to the solution Of this prob
lem one way or the other is probably not more than one
half the work OF sand shif,pg, which done by the
last winter half dozen nor casters like this,
be sufficient to do the business, and thus work change
there waters which will be the making breaking OF
this section Of jersey.
In this connection we cannot overlook visit made to
this place by rhurow Weed, of Albany, in company
with stranger VINO said to be tho state Geological
There jersey people have found ont that where rhurov
Weed Is there Is something ia tue wind Some say
cuaiion others that it ws 10 take q
look OF the Law OF the and, with town los and country
seais, Ia MeEra,h, in his minds eye-others, that IL
was political VISIT and others TIA. was merely
pleasure trip, the result OF the Herald descriptions Of
these Highlands and their surroundings Bat az the Hon
FREEMAN Smith, located IN Wall street, but formerly
Senator from Come ctcut and chief maGager at Washing
ton CT Gen. Taylors election, also here day two
ago, the odds In favor of the presumption that Mr.
Weed called down financial political speculation,
and that Mr. Smith Knows something about IL. New Jersey
is transition state and VINE her hereafter enc Is 70 be
f.-n will ofty
much upon the ips diS OF Commodore Stockton and he
Is lvsys in q transition state.
The editor and proprietor or the HERALD returned yes
te,dsy TO amer weeks uun apod soourn at
this place. and bis son-an amiabls youth OF much pro-
mise-o prepar. FOR an excursion dcgn Fast These VII
nessesses who familiar with al the most beau fu
and pa ,es In Eurooe from tho Br tsh Islands to
Italy, a. they with Wet Point Cape May, Newport
Saratoga will bear out the writer in the ooinon tina.
the psual beauties and advantages OF this charming
o; New Jersey, are superior to these or any
Shef sea more resort In either nsmlspheres, oar
thtt We have elevated and Wholesome country OF
green hills and woods behind The waters Of this river
nom the cal by that ribbon Of sand, OF
the most Interesting mysteries OF the physical geogra
ply OF the The OF all nations 20 aad from
The imperial cry New World passeI in full review
before erday, for example, when the Sun had
lifted the morning fog, upwards u one hundred and nfty
sail in sight, outward bound, but siuguiary enough,
when looked this morning. with this northeasier thick
ening IN the sky, not hulk visible except steamer
within the range Of the ocean horrizon:--
In such gale
From the Bay OF scsy, OH
We have d.ned-we have rested, aud - resume our
memoranda, the storm has opened upon us with full
force We TO back window, and he gale In the
for est Ike hurricane, and sweeps uo the bill a. If would
lift the trees out by their rootswe come 10 front win
and nothing visible OF the sea except the shore line
whto breakers roaring ike Niagara beyond that terri
BILE serf all is black and void II seems almost q miracle
that thai feeble rope OF sand should be strong enough
resst for hour the tremendous pressure OF old
ocean In such storm ~ this.
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