The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-01
ENCLOSED HARBORs.

ENCLOSED HARBORS.
FsE BOTTLE sePE1 TsE u coN=
NON DE We . OYER
II D lssn hap pens. l'Illff SlladFe EIele
eIf lies tllss Also, n fIie.
Shd1je 81 IsI1illlIss Iliat Al1llost
Is4oelz % ne 1sl.tz1szasee.
tllcs a trip around tie World
over The maps of a good atlds we md
That the eograpEiieal bottle IS . very
eortlItloa type of bari56I Is world over.
me coasts Of Cuba show q sueee ion
OF such inclosed bays IhSslra halEi5or
being typical. It often happens that
rlsrtUre herself proyide rs ne corks sisos
Ia the shape OF islands that almost
block up the entrance. or at least
block the view from the outside. Such
a cork IS Corregidor island, IN ManiIa
bay. or the rocky .AIcatrl.z fortTe Just
inside the Golden Gate at san Fran
cisco, and Smith key occupies similar
position at Santiago.
The Annapolis basin In Nova Scotia
Is very typical among these geograrIl-
Leaf bottles. A fairly good mapof that
beautiful country VIII show narrow
gaI, on the bay or F'undy side Of the
peninsula. This gap, known as Dfgby
strait, breaks through u long ridge that
the people call North nnountnI1i.
Through this break rush the famous
tides of Fundy aud I'LL up an inland /
basin OF salt water twenty miles long /
and several in width.
The entrance, from the outside. is |
mysteriously invisible to the lands
mans eye. To a passenger crossing the
bay of I'unly from st. John it seems I
as II the captnin were steering his trim
side wheeler head ON into blue noun
tuIn wall. hut at Inst the forested
mountain opens, and through the break
tie interior hills of Nova Scotia close
the distance One can ina CINE the ire
lnendOuS tide race through the Digby
strait when we know that the ordinary
tidal rise III this region is anywhere
from forty TO seventy feet 1t Is so
great In fact. that the wharyes ut
Digby are two Storied affairs and
people go aboard steamers from the
upper or lower story. according to the
height of the tide
New York harbOr is in most respects
l geographical bottle-onlS it has two
instead of one. Added to the
principal opening, the Narrows, a sort
II side entrance is provided by the
East river. leading out into the sound
The coast Of Australia presents sew
raj examples Of the geographical bot
le. the finest being the harbor OF Mel
bourne. An ordinary map shows this
.ity situated apparently upon a first
ate harhor Of the bottle type. As a
nutter Of fact. the Bottle is really
here fully thiry-dve miles across
Il citiser direction Into this bay. call
4 Fort Philip. there flows the Yarra
liver. and. oddly enough, Melbourne,
si;h is half million people, hides it
elf away nine niles mp this stream. .
;c!ow the city the river has two sand !
airs. which prevent the passage of
irise vessels, The heavy ocean traffic
therefore, has rs terminus in the bay.
hence tire journey is; continued to +,
ow1l 10y rail Tie explanation for this
wlsward situation seems to Ire that
l the early days OF Melbourne the one
lea OF the settlers was to build up I
le river never dreaming that one day :
would become a great metropolis :,
nprisoncd behind the sands of the =
selcsS Yarrst
Rio .Janciro mas spIendidly mclOsed =
lest In all South America: =
sitter far thatn the shallow Lake q 3
aracalbo, w:rici looks so ideal upon q
lie map. Here uguiI at Rio we have II
great salt water inlet. some seven
en- miles across. communicating with
C ocean by n narrow strait. =.
In nearly every case these natural :.
,ttles are what the geoGrapher calls y
drowned rivers"-that is to say. the y .,
,astal lands i'll the vicinity have sub =
ded. allowing the sen to dow In and :! =
nvert what was n IowIand valley -
to partly inclosed marine area. ~
IvcIs have gone to the bottom of New 2.
Ork bay and hnve found there the an =, -
ent bed of the Hudson river us the ~
ream flowed before the moutlTward 10
rt of the valley subsidized into the sea. n
ne old bed reaches through the Mar "a "a
Tvs and well out Into the floor of the -
tlantic. OF course, as the sea water
tered the sinking valley. any hills "
sing thereabout would become Islands -
the new order OF things And there ou
G find them to this day in almost any 81
these inclUsed inets.-St. Nfcholas.
Lost Her PerquIsitt.
There ;lrc people who make n boast y