The Nome nugget., 1934-09-15

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 Most of the famous craft are dead, and there has be- tendency for their successor keep the standardized designs. here and there one of them show flash of originality, and endures that the pendulum of ion will swing back.
 The fossils which form the ond bow of the Whitby jet de have a more strictly scientih' terest. The commonest is the monite. It Is found in immense fusion along the entire coast, from the geologist's point of It's most interesting aspect iS 1t traordinary variety. The am ite, of course. was marine ar belonging to the family of E and octopuses. It's nearest { ing relative is the nautilus.
 The ammonits, which is par larly abundant on the rocks a foot of the Abbey cliff, has rise to an interesting legend v still finds credence among w fisher folk. They believe 1t [ the petrified remains of a sI Rarely, however, is 8 spec found with it's head" intact. story goes that in the days Hilda, the district suffered frt plague of adders The holy was prevailed upon to use her ence against them, with the r that first their heads were pr off and then their bodies turned into stone.
 Cottages of the Fishermen.
 From the main streets of w -Baxtergate, Flowergate, On street-and thence from Ski street, Sandgate, Haggersgate St. Ann's Staith, narrow lanes among the old cottages or lea watery. dead ends.
 The cottages are built in amt confusion. One has the imprei that they must have pushed selves up, mushroom fashion, the ground whenever there space. They have no gardens. have, with few exceptions, no save into their neighbours parl' down his chimney stack. They however, all built on one gel plan, which gives kitchen, pc a best room, two bedrooms, an attic. Their architects and b CTS were all men of the sea. day 1t is chiefly the fishermen live in them.
 Even the fishing trade at WI has suffered more than an ordl share of economic vlcissitude. - residents of the town can rel Der the time when, in summer, ing the height of the North sea ring season, the harbor was est of masts. And they have seen the time when the unlos of a solitary herring drifter ated a sensation. The herring 1 has vanished. But that spirit out which no industry can thrive remained alive in the breasts o sturdy Whitby men, and the has of late years experienced vival in the crab and lobster tr'
 cobIe a Fine Surf Boat.
 That view to the east, across harbor, so beloved of painters photographers, would not be t plete without the fishing moored hard up to the +, threshold of the cottages; wit the lobster pots stacked upon quays, the salmon nets spread on poles to dry in the sun wit the groups of blue-jerseyed, tanned men, busy with their geI gossiping. Some of these men old, white-bearded, and loquacl but most of them are in their p tall, square-shouldered soft, ca in the way they move about strained in their speech, watc
 The type of craft character of the coast is the coble. No tograph can show It's superb sa qualities. It's design is the 6 tionary outcome of conditions Is pre-eminently surf boat.
 The coble,s greatest draft is ward, and on an open shore landed stern first, It's slender ] offering no resistance to the It sails fast and very close toS wind. because It's long rudder as q keel. But the rudder iS q source of danger, for 1t may f, mass of seaweed or become tangled in anchored fishing when the boat is in . heavy br The coble. like q spirited horse mands expert handling.