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"No. I never happened on Cap'n Am'zon when I was sea-farin'. And he ain't never been to Cardhaven to my knowledge." "Never been here?" murmured Lawford Tapp more than a little surprised. "Wasn't he born and brought up here?" "No. Neither was Cap'n Abe. The Silts flourish, as ye might say or, useter 'fore the fam'ly sort o' petered out down New Bedford way.
Not only had the canal to be made but it has to be kept in working order, for the sand silts back into the channel, and so numbers of dredgers are constantly at work scraping out the bottom so as to keep it deep enough for ships of large size.
All deposits made on the land, such as the flood plains of rivers, the silts of lake beds, dune sands, and sheets of glacial drift, mark but pauses in the process which is to bring all the materials of the land now above sea level to rest upon the ocean bed.
As he expressed it, "one must not court sorrow," and he hinted to the young man that they desired to be alone. Rickie went back to the Silts. He was only there a few days. As soon as term opened he returned to Cambridge, for which he longed passionately. The journey thither was now familiar to him, and he took pleasure in each landmark.
I reckoned he was nothing but a bag o' wind, with all his yarns of bloody murder an' the like. But he is a Silt; no gettin' around that. And Cap'n Abe allus did say the Silts were proper seamen." "Poor, poor Cap'n Abe!" sobbed Louise. "Now, now!" soothed Betty. "Don't take on so, deary. They'll get 'em both. Never fear." But the rising gale forbade another launching of the lifeboat for hours.
Even the Silts only scented "something strange." When Stephen was born, it was abroad. When he came to England, it was as the child of a friend of Mr. Failing's. Mrs. Elliot returned unsuspected to her husband. But though things can be hushed up, there is no such thing as beating time; and as the years passed she realized her terrible mistake.
He was too angry to be diverted from his purpose. Only slight emotions are thwarted by an interlude of farce. "I've had enough of this quarrelling," she retorted. "You know that the Silts are inaccurate. I think you might have given me the benefit of the doubt. If you will know have you forgotten that ride you took with him?" "I " he was again bewildered. "The ride where I dreamt "
But they all reach back to the first navigators of the world." "The first navigators?" "I do not mean to the Phoenicians," her father said. "I mean that the world never saw braver nor more worthy sailors than those who called the wind-swept hamlets of Cape Cod their home ports. The Silts were all master-mariners. This Captain Abe is a bachelor, I believe. You could not very well go there."
Though, Rickie, you will have to accept the Jacksons' invitation." "I cannot possibly go. I have been too rude; with Widdrington we always meet here. I'll stop with the boys " His voice caught suddenly. He had opened Mrs. Silt's letter. "The Silts are not ill, I hope?" "No. But, I say," he looked at his wife, "I do think this is going too far. Really, Agnes." "What has happened?"
Here extended deposits of peat may accumulate in swamps, and the remains of land and fresh- water animals and plants swept down by the stream are imbedded in the silts laid at times of flood. Borings made in the deltas of great rivers such as the Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, show that the subaerial portion often reaches a surprising thickness.
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