Letters From the Sea Side (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Letters From the Sea Side What consummate chemistry lurks in its saline depths! It seems to surge and pour its angry surf upon the shore as if in sport, and in defiance of all law, whereas it is stirred and tossed about by storms and currents that are nicely adjusted conditions of its existence. Its active principle of salt is measured by an unerring alchemy that ever freshens and renews; and while a vortex for the filth of the world, it converts all refuse, and débris, in the alembic of its bosom into pure elements that disinfect and animate all creation. The poetry of the ocean is a prolific theme, but if I indulged in rhapsodies you might justly think they were Byron´s and not my own. So I will not descant upon its poetic features, but simply remark that it knows no change, and defies the law of mutability that governs all else. It is the most constant friend I find in life. When after months, or years, of absence, I return to its surf-beaten shores it gives me the same honest greeting that saluted me at first. Its integrity is not limited by years: "Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow - Such as creation´s dawn beheld, thou rollest now." The parish of Westhampton covers many small necks of land each having its individual name derived from Indian tradition. The one on which our house stands is called Ketchabonack - others are Potunk, Mesuck, Oneck, Quiogue, Paukuk, Speonk and Quoque. These titles are, perhaps, not euphonious except to Long Island ears, but they have a local twang that tells its own story of aboriginal custom that must excite the respect of outsiders. We are staying in a farm-house which is occupied by descendants of the family who built it two hundred years ago. The Long Island people are a peculiar race. They are a thrifty set, and they intermarry so frequently that the same families and names continue in the community for centuries. Very seldom a stranger settles in this vicinity. The people have pride of family, and glory in owning and cultivating the acres that belonged to their ancestors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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