The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-03-27
HIS GREAT AQUATIC FEAT.
RoWING THOUsdNDs or NILES IN
BARN BGdr DUCK BOAT.
Oar Western Rivers and southern sea Coast
-Plsptv Of Game and Monstrou- PIrh--
The Water Coarsee Of the Continent.
" n. B''hop, IN Forest and Stream.

Oar Western Rivers and southern sea Con.
-rlsptv Of Game and Monstrou- PIsh-
The Water Coarsee Of the Continent.
" n B''hop, IN Forest and Stream.
APALACuICoLA, Fla. Mnrch I'll have
just emerged from the Interior saltwater
Ja-sages ~ the coast. by crossing tho beach
above Ca ~. Bas, IF IN st. Jose obs Sound
10 the waters of the Gun Of Mexico; thence
bv 81. Ninccpts Sound to this port. while
waiting for the strong eaetehy winds TO Sub
81 c, ! Will give Won q dascription NJ tho route
to be followed by mdll boat from New Orleans
From Like Pon'chartrsin (where a young
Trend joined inc with his skin. alter my lonely
row 81 900 miles dOvn tie ohio and Mississi ppi
IveTN' nom littsourrh) The shores were fol
lowed to biloxi lie wing Biloxi we rDwed east
etly' crossing the mouths " bays and bayou,
ua-t PascagCula to the eutr tnce OF Mobile Bay,
and oanped outside Of Fort Games, until the
wafer bee me smooth enough to allow us to
cross the iulgl, three and half miles, to Fort
MORGAN. The Bon SecOurbiv was followed inside
the OeHch to its head and we became land
locked in Oy ter Il y, n tributary Of the Bon re-
C0ur liver. Only one man in that part of the
pines owned yoke Of oxen he hauled US seven
miles through a Lowell country To pnrttre creek,
which We DESCENDED to tie " de rerdido rIver.
The Pcrlido was followed fur few miles to its
l ~ greut eastern mend, 1ve or SIX mules from
whep IL cmDics its water into tho CUR Of Mex
leo. A. 'uh r'tut strip OF low land. only
turce-fourths of mile In width, separates the
river from the iiis lagoon. Here we Dir aged oar
boats across int the shallow lagoon. and rowed
lffpuEu u To th" town uf War; ngtou and the
ne by e. Santa Rosa Island with I'D wind.
The dist'nce hetween the Fort Pckens end Of
the Is ma aud East T. 50 inlet at its 81 stern ex-
irenitv Il about fortv-cight miles. All through
these regions the cabins OF the settlers are few
indeed.
II this unsettled region deer. Wild cats aud
cuons are apuud mt and heavy uiue forests
give dteurv aspect to the shores of the sounds.
one family OF negroes lived upon : ma Rosa
Island, aud .de the uulS settlers 10 he found
along the sound. excepting the four or nve
families at the uarrows on the main shore OF
Al Eist Pass, on the eastern side Of the inlet.
resides tapt. /. Destin. a New London, Conn
nan 'rman. From East Pass IL IL about tntrtN
miies eu~terly to the head Of ChOCLawhatcuee
II ' aud from that end We h al our boats haul.
ed turOugh Wild forest, siXtecn miles, TO West
ny Netk' tributary OF -. AhdieM sound.
We continued our journey through West IBay.
across the nodth of North Ray 10 :. Andrews
Etst BAY, the entrance OF which We crossed a.
We rowcd down to the sea. At TIL, point WAS
first seen the palmetto or cabbage palm. the
feHthery tops ot watch gave tropical cast to
the forests. Tue waters OF the Mexican Gulf
were now before US. rather seen
through the great upt uinss In the bench ON our
RIGHT as we ruwed inside the sandy Islands
winch set ~ a barrier to keep out the rough
waves " the great southern sea
We campcd inside OF Crooked Island, and tho
following day. having rOwed as far eastward aH
tue gradually closing interior watercourse would
allow. we hauled our boats across the beach,
ahd launched out upon IN" waters 81 the GUT.
\ few miles Of hard pulling brought US to 81.
Joseph bav. wnich we followed to Its eastern
end, whore we became land-iocked four mites
above CAPE -. BIAS. 10 was necessary to maze
another portage OF about q quarter OF a mile
across the beach into the Cuff again. We slept
ia CUR hoats for two nights. awaiting the sub-
sdence of the sea; then We launched our little
croft once m0io upoa the restless waves. A
we pulled W the tie ich. gft Il black dsn c lmc
In scnoOi-. and dividing into four comp mics,
one on cacn SIDE. aud party 10 front
and nfro astern OF tue boats, I'm the
most disnlheu manner convoycl us three
mites 10 where We parted company; we To 20
tnr1Irh the sur to make landing on the
eirlnd tHey to follow fAc Dent oi their iucina
uops. These great fCll lws. Weighing from 80
TO LOW pounds each. seemed luth to leave Tie.
Tor they swan slowly seward. @ louung a.
thcN iohcd their dark h'-iies above the waves.
inc landing WA accomplished without snipping
nuch " it,f, aud w. immediatei, hauled over
the beach thrte ur four hundred feet into tho
una. Two mucs ea-twd d Of where We made
our luldius Is Indian Pass. an inlet Through
wncn We could nave ent red tue sound. but
heavy seas were hreasing upon the bar, and any
attempt To enter the inlet AT that lime would
h W proved disastrous ~ us.
Emetging from the Lagoon camped In n
palmetto grove. and were detained IN that wild
retrcft Tor Two nights ami n diy ny hoavy mead
moonlight thirteen miles up the sound t. tho
port NJ Apiiacnicola. In a day OF two we eK-
81. Marks. We have unlg 1855 mites To row when
our icns journey from tue ne q u the ONO will
end. Tue route from Ap.iachlcola To- c. dar
sound 10 Crooked river. thence through th,t
river, TIE ucElockon> Bay aud pen CUR waters
10 ST. Mark 5. From =. Marks the sho1l waters
reefs and SHOALS, may Toe safely followed as
WIN nile shell mound nanmoclNs " the cab
hage palm. During lasf April | emerged Ia my
paper canoe from these marshes ut the mouth OF
tue VIA saw nee tiHrr ~ ended canoe jour
new ~ about 800 mdcs from the Guf OF )
l. wrencr. lhe 6,0VJ iniir- ct rowing through
the connecting water courses Of the ointment
during twu Sc isons has I'm ress I'd me with tho
great value aud wonderful characteristics Of the
inmcn.e rivers. BAYS, sounds snd nArDnrs which
are the heuta-e OF the American people.
corresp,..iel,s II ae ", L. Eresnig F.si.
APALACHICoLA. March 6.-Thomas Cole
man. hEht keeper AT cape 81. Bias, Fla, on the
cur Of Mexico, reports nat the duck boat Cen
tenniil Republic. In which Mr. Bisnop left Puts
burgh, the head " navigation on the ono river,
on Dec. last, bound for Ce1ar KEYS, Fla, wai
quarter OF mule, and launched on the waters OF
the Gulf on the jd col March. four miles above
the lighthouse. As the boat went up the coast
70 ludl Idss, a school ~ olackAsh, weighing
iom i've hundred 10 one thousand pounds each,
came % "a" surface ami accompanied the little
craft Tor three uhes To place where Mr. Bishop
made . passage through the surf 10 the Deach,
and then made another portage of three hundred
fee across the beach into til. lagoon. which no
followed 10 ii. Nincent's Sound. he blacknSh,
In four parties, on either side OF the boat ami
mead aud astorn, keut up their n arch with lhe
precision OF old REGULARS"
Mr.. Bishop has rowed down the Ohio AMI Ms
sssiopl more tnan 2.V0 mules to New Orleans,
Sleeping IN his little twelye-foot craft at night
In or eks or al ng tho beaches md marshes ~
the rivers. From NV O'le.ns 10 st. Georges
Sound the passage has been mostly made inside
~ -. mas. reefs, &c, II was necr, ,sry to make
some fV uNrtaces between water courses from
New Orleans so Cane ~ Mas; ine rest 81 the
rOIte 10 Cedar KEYS nom 81. Marks j. all Hc-
complisnod upon the open waters OF the Gulf
The object II Mr.. Bishops long coast tourney
OF this and Of lat Year "a Ia collect material Tor
gcoglduhical WORK on The connecting water
courses II tho United ST lies. lie l. now follow
ing Cot. kaiford's proposed canal route to con.
meet tue Mississippi river with the Atlantic coast.
starved aud Stuntcd IN Tier Growth.
From me- LaNlln Ylaes.
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