The Press., 1884-10-09
Along Narrngansett RaY.

The shore vacation from business prac- tically closed with the first week of Sep tember, and the city boarders who enliven the scene with sailing, driving and other forms of pleasure-seeking, or rest-seeking, returned to the dust and din, and, as the event proved, to week of the hottest weather of the season. On the advent of this month with an ', the oyster, clam and scallop fishery opened busily. A large part of the bay shore has been let and sub-let to private parties or individ- uals, though on what official authority or sanction the waters, far out, are held or transferred it is safe not to imagine.
 The man who is making five or six dol lars by his morning catch of oysters hasn't the time to answer questions of how and wherefore, as matter of course. Some of the best oyster beds are at the junction of the rivers with the bay and it's tdewater.
 Among these the Providence and the Harrington river oyster beds are notable. An oysterman estimated that profitable margin would remain at the end of sin gle year from a new plant at the mouth of the Seekonk river, which skirts the western side of Providence, at $500 for this one years rent of 0aae acre. The Providence, Warren and Bristol R. R. follows the shore level for nearly the whole of its course of 15 miles on the eastern side of the bay, and conects at Providence with the Ros- ton and Providence R. R., affording fine facilities for marketing the harvest of the bay.
 Large quantities of tautog, scupps and other fnny fish are caught, chiefly for home consumption as food for the brain, ct ceterG. Yet the less favored inlanders need not be daunted in the intellectual rivalry since Prof. Atwater of Wesleyan university has come to the rescue and states that exhaustive search and analysis had failed to find phosphorus in any con- siderable quantity in fish, either of tho sea or fresh water varieties. Certain it is, that an exclusive fish diet does not seem to increase remarkably the intellectual power of the fishermen or of the fishes themselves.
 It is to be remarked, however, that the native population of Rhode Island have for some years past made excellent and highly commendable progress in the work
  tion of the teachers have had normal train ing, and there are many free libraries, es pecially in the vicinity of Providence and Newport. Bristol county has one in each of it's towns Bristol, Rogers free library about 5000 volumes, Warren nearly 4,OOO', Burlington over 2,20O. J.N.E.
 
 The disposition of the superfuous waters of the Nile during the annual overflow has been @ subject that engineers have long figured over. If this excess could be dis posed of thousands of acres of marsh land at the mouths of the river could be con. verted into productive plantations. F. Cope Whitehouse, son of the late bisholp of Illinois, who seems to have taken tn c subject seriously to heart, claims that h C has hit upon the solution by following u the suggestions furnished in ancient let. erature. Both Herodotus and Diadoru Slculus speak of an enormous flake made by King Moeris not far from the Nile and connected with it by @ canal. Sometimes the stored water of the lake was distributed over the country in sluices and sometimes redischarged into the river. Young White house took it upon himself to find the To- cation of this lake, and for two years he has examined all the low lands bordering upon the Nile. He finds possible lake bed extending south of the Wadi lReian. Portions of the ancient canal connecting it with the r1ver are still to be seen. The attention of the Egyptian government has been called to the discovery. The lowest point of this bed is 200 feet belew the lev el Of the Mediterranian, and lake with 8 shore of over 300 miles could be made in 8 region now utterly useless:
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