sand-blocked

Updated: May 14, 2025

With the first hours of daylight next morning we have to be up and packing, for by ten o'clock we must be on board the Florence, a small, yacht-like coasting-steamer which can go much closer into the sand-blocked harbors scooped by the action of the rivers all along the coast.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876