, 1912-03-02

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est that is meant, but merely the kind
of interest which even q child may
sometimes take in what he sees gong Cd
around him. At that time he lived near
Harwich pronounced Hdr'-r5tchG II we'll
known English port on the North Sea. n
sandy and shiDgly point protects the harbour
which was then often spoken OF as a mar
bour Of refuge, and such indeed 1t WAS,
for those were the days Of the old sailing
briggs, which from being used for carrying
coal ,fmainly from Newcastle to London( were
called on that coast golfers. Let q strong
east wind set in, the golfers, either hight
going north III ballast OF heavily loaded
going south with coal, wodld run in one
after the other till the harbour Was full of
them. To show them the way in at night
Harwich had fand probably still hast 2
lights, ore higher and farther back thpn the
other, and the skipper who kept the twolE
an upright line as ,he brought his ship IN.
was safe, while if he failed, either from
stress of weather. or from Ignorance, to DO
this. he wrecked his vessel on the protecting
point. 1t is precisely i'll this way that the
two red lights recently fixed on the hull
behind the town in st. Thomas are used.
Some miles outside the harbour eastwards
was an extensive bank, on which a light ship
was mooled. To this bank and to other
shallow waters to the south a small fleet OF
sEonps went out from Hnrwlch every morn
ing in good weather, remaining out nearly
all day and getting back to The tow late III
the afternoon. The writer's impression is
that there were from q dozen to a score OF
these little vessels. We always called them
stouers. Why It was because they went
out armed with %grapnels, with which were
fshed up from the bottom d number OF stones
of a dark grey or brown colour and having the
form of blocks with the corners rounded OF.
TIE stones were brought to the town ana
delivered 80 1t factory there where they were
burned and made into what was called no.
man cement. The writer saw the sloops
and the outside of the faetory, and OCCASION
ally saw the stones; the rest he WIS told,
and with that much he remained content:
OF course the reader sees THAT 1t would be
interesting to learn how those stones came
at the sea -bottorn off Harwich, and what
particular property OF theirs mAfe 1t worm
while to- fish them up Rut II was not fof
many years after the time above referred to
that the present writer thought Of such
questions and searched for ans wers at ter
one is not over-burdened with problems of
that kind things are, and that is sufficient
the "whv" and the chow, except III the
simplest of eases, have hardly yet presented
them selves.
Along tie coast about five miles south
of Harwich is IA rounded point called "Ihe
Maze All points called Maze, or by names
endiIg in sDess", which means the same
thing, are rounded, OF they would not be
called 50, since these names are only other
forms of the word "nose." At the distant
time above referred 70 the Maze near Hnr-
wich was seen by the writer nearly every
day. but he never visited it. 1t ended III Il
low cliff Of clay, and there was a village there
known as Walton-on-the-Naze, which has
since developed into a summer resort: Inc
clay showing in the cliff is called the LoII0d
clog. Do you ask how that can be with
London far away? 1t is true that Lon
don il about IS miles from the Naze ; but
the sheet of clay which shows itself ut the
Maze nevertheless extends itself under Lon
don ard a good many miles beyond. 1t IS
an enormous sheet, Ut is thick too; under
London it's thickness is about 400 It,, as is
known from boriugs for water, and IL some
parts it even reaches q thickness OF about
500 feet. We may realize what this means
when we remember that Rec0oery HiU, to
the back of ChrIstiansted, is about 800 it.
above the level of the harbour, Ma F'oIie in
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