Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-01-11


Talk" C. H. Spurgeon. All the men and
boys are fishers. They have $50 little
sloops in their lilliputian port. Their
trousers are two bags, such as The Turks
wear in Smyrna. Their church has vo-
tive offerings hung from the ceiling, model
ships, fishers nets, and fish skipping about
in miniature over the clumsy pews.
White caps, cover the women's heads
down to the eyebrows, and black curls
come from below the front and turn up
wards at the forehead. A long tress of
hair hangs at the ear of each unmarried
girl, and two for those who have hus
bands About their bosoms are curiously
wrought bodices. The stuff for these is no
longer manufactured, so the dress is de.
vised by will, and your niece wears the
mantle of her great grandmother.
The interior of the wooden houses is
very peculiar. One large room holds one
or more families, and it has a peat fire in
the middle, and no opening for smoke or
light or air.
In the few richer dwellings there is an
excess of ornament, all of one knick-
knack type china, brass, and carved work.
In one of these houses | found an old lady
of eighty seven the walls of the houses
we're entirely covered by about 800 delft
plases, pans. and saucers, all suspended
by strings; by black sculptural cabinets,
brass cand'ostic'ys, "saniolers' of last Gen.
tury, barcr' i'hrr' ne, ry clocks
that last told time in 1920 pictures of Van
Tromp's battles, cats, tin cans, and heap
of odd things, each with a history to it.
The people move about in boats from
house to house elong little canals six feet
wide, with swing bridges turning on
pivot and weighted at one end. Their no
ton of En- gland seemed to be this, ct is
an island, certainly larger than Marken"
The North Holland canal, which was
cut to save a roundabout from Amsterdam
by the Zuyder Zee, is more than fifty miles
long, and enables large ships TO enter Hol-
land at it's extreme Northern end. But
this canal is too long, too narrow, too tor
tuous, and too shallow for the increasing
length and depth of our largest merchant
vessels. To save tina, then, and much
transhipment. the new canal opens to the
West instead Of the North 1t is fifteen
miles in length instead of tifty-two. Its
depth is 26 feet available instead of 10
feet, and no bends or sudden turn OBJ
struct the passage anywhere. Six lars
ago this work was begun By an English
contractor, Mr.. Lee.
At present the work is precisely in that
condition most interesting to inspect, be-
ing just beyond the state in which any
doubt can remain as to its ultimate success.
Very likely the success will sap the other
canal, and reduce Niewe dep to mar ne
depot perhaps it will also draw the gold
en- tide from Rotterdam, but perhaps, too,
the merchants there will shift their quar-
ters to the better eRtrep0t Of Amsterdam,
and yet, perhaps, indeed, when All is done,
certain German Prince will stretch out
his iron hand and ask for the new road,
and very graciously thank those who
made it for him.
The dredging is far better done than it
was on the suez canal. The machinery
has been steadily improved and simpliied,
and the latest and best appliance was only
completed in August last. This consists
of tube resting near the ooze at the Lot
tom and containing shaft with a centri-
fugal pump, which draws up the sapd and
water bodily-about half of each in the
m.Xture-and forces it along wooden pipes
hoated on the surface of the waer and
hexibly jointed by leather hides. The
sush is thus poured through conduct
about 800 fee. long and one foot broad,
which resembles a huge black snake coil
ed and asleep on the water, with It's tail
turned over the bank at the side. Through
this tail, even when it is raised eight feet
above the level, a copious fluid rushes,
black as ink, but fertile for the next hun
dred generations OF cheese making Hol-
landers. So simple is this plan, that al
ready it is being applied to the great
banks of the Danube.
The writer concludes:
Holland, however, is just the place for
canoe voyage, as the rivers, lakes, canals,
islands, and seas are all approachable on
the shores, having no cliffs or rocks, and
almost everywhere you can find house.
The Dutch seamen are hardy race, and
very kind TO the traveller. Every sailor
doiied his hat to me in passing, even in
the smallest creek, an2 much Of my time
has been spent in returning universal
salute, though that is not easy in my cos
tune of red nightcap. Now am Oft to
FriesIand, leaving the canoe for time,
and shall ever retain most pleasant and
lively impressions of Holland and the
Dutch, as seen from the bottom Of boat.
The Great Canon of the Yellowstone.
The Great Falls are at the head of one
f ,ba ,,,os. ,.o,,,a ~ Il n conops in the world