Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-10

filed the creek with sand and muck until craft
OF hghtest Tonnage fear to trust ito
smooth. deceptive channel. Fine thoroughbred
cattle have been introduced and are yielding
splendid results 10 careful attention. The
cereals flourish and are cultivated more extsn-
nvely than generally supposed, and the pecu-
liarly tinted meadows spreading out for miles
before Lewes along the shore Of the Delaware,
tall conical stacks Of hay, extend almost TO the
very foot Of the great sand hill by the sea. This
consensus Of the surroundings Of Iewes and the
country adjacent, as find Il, does not accord,
however, with the tenor Of an article
which appeared in Harpef's for Sep
he speaks Of the sand hill a. the
white DEATH" where the shot, smooth sand
stretching in from the ocean shore drinks up
water and hfe and leaves all dead, and ''back Of
lush and green, where shallow lakes blooming
with white lilies and blue arrowhead ''sme1l
rank and dank to the nostfils, "are full Of tad
pole' and lizards and crawling things" snakes,
snizzerds and grotesque specimens Of ugly
reptile life in .'dense jungles, tangled wilder
nesses and hidden gloomy swamps Of stagnant
water" 1t is clever composition, a pretty
magazine article and arranged with peculiar
typographical oddness but Is enough to
brighten the wits out Of the summer
tourist and fairly take the breath from the tots
who expect to live in and grow up with the
grant lilies, are here, for have rowed over them
and gathered them by the hundred when every
stroke of the oars pulled beautiful blooms be-
meath the surface. and have strolled to and fro
through the felds and climbed the hills of sand
in the most propitious snakev weather and Jaw
one lonely little snake high up o~ dry land, but
no footprints Of awkward water bird or mis-
shapen reptile.
THE SAND HILL
il also here and aave tho ssrb 70 oafho-wbaf-
ever that isis a wonderful contribution Of ma
ture to the mysterious 1t il a pile Of sand
collected at and about the light house of Cape
Heniopen, SO high that tall trees have been COW
cred up almost to their tops and literally
choked to death, leaving bare stubs standing
out to tell the story of their gradual disappear
ance. The sand hill is steep and towering east
ward, toward the sea, but gradually receding
in an inclined plane westward and inland, COW
ering vast area of ground Whether or not
the hill is formed, as Mr.. Pile alleges, by the
wind blowing 1.-THE shifting surface up the crest
OF each towering wave and over the edge in q
sparkling dry CD mist, which carries with it
the fine sand that falls and extends the surface
inch by inch. foot by foot, covering mp every
thing before il, am 10th to conclude. Sand
hills are numerous and continually increasing
on the French coasts of the Bay of
Biscay and along the coasts of a number
of the British Isles. A singular qualification is
formed by these hills 1t is scientifically held
that prevailing west winds or land breezes carry
particles Of sand up the gentle incline Of the
western aspect of the hill to the crest, over
which they fall, forming a steep declivity to the
east invariably. This is undoubtedly the topo-
graphical condition of the great sand hill at
Cape Henlopen. 1t is said here that when the
light house was built, in about 1725, the neces-
sary dwelling house and outbuildings for the
keeper were also erected. but the big sand hill
gradually covered up all the buildings and the
United States government some ten years ago
in erecting new ones located them nearly over
those the sand had hidden from sight Ger
tainly the sand bank has grown higher and
higher until the great light house itself, whose
walls are eight feet thick, Is surrounded by
funnel-shaped embankment many feet above its
foundation and entrance.
A PARTING COMPLIMENT.
Lewes is place Of literary culture, thrifty,
prosperous, rich in historic renown of its pub
lie men and with a wealth of interesting and
beautiful traditions. Its citizenship is stamped
with unmistakable patriotism, its people
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