Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30
Battle Shaped Type Is Common The
World Over.
and WELL PROTECTED
1t Often Happens That Nature Her
self Provides the corks Also, In the
Shape of Islands, That Almost
Block Up the Entrances.

lf we take Il trip around the world
over tho maps OF Il good atlas we find
that the geographical bottle" Is IL very
common type Of hnrbor the world over
The coasts of Cuba show Il succession
Oh such Enclosed bays. Havana harbor
being typical. II often happens that
nature herself provides the corks also
block up the entrance. or at least
block tic view from the outside Such
cork is corrcgidor island. in Manila
bay, or the rocky Alcatruz fortress juS
inside the Golden Gate ut San Fran
cisco, and Smith key occupies Il similar
position ut Santiago.
The Annapolis basin in Nova Scotia
IS very typical among these eeograph.
zeal bottles. \ fairly good map of thai
beautiful country will show Il narrow
gap OH the bay OF Fmndy side of the
peninsula. This. gap known as Diyby
strait. breaks through long ridge that
Tie people call North mountain.
Through this break rush the ramou,
Tides of fundy and III NJ an inland
basin OF suit water twenty miles lo,l,:
and several in width.
Inc entrance. from the out Sitlc. II
hnySicroUsly Invisible to the lands.
mans eye. 70 II passenger crossing the
bay of Fundy f,om st. John it Seem.
as II The captain wore steering his trim
Sitie wheeler head on into Il blue noun.
la!n wall, but nj last the rorcstcd
mountain opens. and through the break
me interior hills of Nova Scotia close
Tie Distance. one can imagine the tr,.
lnrl!uouS tide race through the Digb,
STRAIT wien we know that The ordinary
l!dal rise in this REGION Il anywhere
from forty - seventy feet. II Is 50
great, III flst, that the wllarvcS al
i'SbE are two sioriGh affairs, ami
people 80 aboard steamers from The
upper or lower story. according to the
height of tie tide.
New York barbOr is in most respect.
IL geographical bot;lc-oaly II has two
mouths instead of one. Added to lie
principal opening. tic Narrows. Il sort
of side entrance is provided by the
East river, leading out into the sound.
The coast of Australia presents sew.
eral examples OF the geographical bot
tic. the finest being the harhur of Mel
bourne. I'm ordinary map shows this
CITY situated apparently upon II first
rate hurhor of the bottle type. .ts Il
matter of fact. the bottle is really
there = fully thirty-iivc miles across
i'll either direction. Into this bay. call
cd Port Philip. tlicr" flows the Yaria
river, and. oddly enough, Melbourne.
with lis half million people, hides Il
self away nine miles mp this stream.
Below the city tile river has two sand
bars, which prevent the pasangc of
large vessels. The heavy ocean traffic
therefore has its terminus In the bay,
whence the journey is continued to
town by rail. The explanation for this
awkward situation seems TO be that
in The early days of Melbourne the one
idea of the settlers was TO build up
the river. never dreaming that one day
it would become great metropolis
imprisoned behind the sands Of thd
useless Yarra.
Rio Janciro has splcnlidly incloscl
narbor-tle hest in all South America:
better far than the shallow Lake"
Maracalbo. which looks so ideal upon
The map. Here again ut Rio we iuve
a great salt water inlet, some seven
teen miles across, communicating with
tie ocean by Il narrow strait
III nearly every case these natural
bottles are what the geographer calls
drowned rivcrs"-that is to say, the
coastal lands in the vicinity have sub
sided, allowing tile sea to flow in ana
convert what was lownnd valley
into n partly incloscd marine area.
Divers have gone II tie bottom cf New
York bay and have found there tire an=
Gent he'd Of the hudson river rs tho
stream flowed before the moutl!ward
part Of the valley subsidized into Tie sea.
The old bed reaches through tie Mar
rows and well cut into the tIo3r Of the
Atlantic. OF course. as the sea water
entered the sinking valley, any hills
rising tlereabout would become islands
in the new order of things. And there
we find them to this d..y in almost any
Of these incloSed inlcts.- st. Nicholas.