The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-05
BOTTLEG
Enclosed Basins TAat Make he worlds Best
Harbaru.

Fropa 70. Nicholas.
II We take q trip around the world. over
the maps Of a good atlas, we shall md that
the geographical bottle IL q very common
type OF harbor the world over. The coasts
OF Cuba show a succession OF such enclosed
bays. Havana harbOr being typical. IL often
happens that Nature herself provides the
corks also. In the shape OF Islands that almost
block up the entrance. or at least block the
view from the outside. Such . cork IN
COrregidOr Island. In Manila Bay. or the
rocky AlcatrRs fortres q just inside the Golden
Gate at San Francisco. and Smith Cay occu-
pies q similar position At Santiago.
The Annapolis Basin. In Nova Scotia. 10
very typical among these geographical bottles.
A fairly good map Of that beautiful country
will show a narrow gap on the Bay OF Fundy
side Of the peninsula. This gap. knoWn a.
DiRby Strait. breaks through a long ridge
that the people call North Mountain. Through
this break rush the famous ides OF Fundy
and ali up an inland basin Of salt water twenty
miles long and severalln width. The entrance.
from the outside, Is mysterlously Invisible 10
the Bay OF Fundy from st, John IL seems as
II the captain were steering his trim side
BUT Bnee ~ I. se1 he or FORMED Mountain opens. and
through the break the interior hills Of Nova
he Scet tr.S mend M tide race through this DisSy
Strait when we know thai the ordlna tidal
rise in this region Is anywhere from tcrty 70
whsrves at DiSby are two-storied affairs.
and people 60 aboard stesmers from the upper
or lower story. according to the height OF the
New York hsrbor is, In most respects
Instead Of one. Added tothe principal opening.
"a st sy &: t. scr: !R Rf :'cs issdinS out into
The coast Of Australia presents several
examples Of the geographical bottle. the
ordinary man shows this city locate ed APP
sSt,ii: tyDs really k ts.rs mater m. 81 cent en-: en-.
ssTcs, i sitSsF direction. Into this bay;
tie half million people, hides itself awsy nine
river has two sand bars which prevent The
passage of large vessels The heavy ocean
whence The journey is continued to town ~
rail. The explanation for this awkward situa-
,,29 seems ~ p be 01s th tSss IN IN me me . ssfEs ds ss % q
Sc up the river the miners planted their settle;
become a great metropolis. Imprisoned be-
hind the sands Of the useless Ysrra.
the best in ali South America: better far
than the shallow Lake" Maracaibo, which
looks 80 ideal upon the map. Here again a.
seventeen miles across, communicating with
the ocean by a narrow strait.
are what the geoRrapher calls drowned
rivers" That IL to gay, the coastal lands in
the vicinity he We subeided, allowing the sea
to aow in and con vert what was a lowland
valley into a partly encloeed marine area.
Divers have gone to the bottom OF New York
Bay and have found there the ancient bed
OF the Hudson River a. that stream flowed
before the mouthVard part Of its valley sub
sided into the sea. The old bed reaches
through the Narrows and well out into the
floor Of the Atlantic. or course. as the sea
water entered the sinking valley, any hills
rising thereabout would become Islands in
the new order Of thin gs. And there. We ind
them TO this day In almost any Of these en-
cloNed inletG.