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It is a broken ground with depths from 15 to 20 fathoms, the bottom rocky and gravelly, with occasional mud holes. It extends NE. about 4 miles, nearly to Roaring Bull Ledge, and is ½ mile wide. There are strong tidal currents here, the flood being NE., the ebb SW. It is a cod ground from April to June, and cod and hake are taken from September to November; haddock in December.
"Sw e-ê-t!" burst forth the canary suddenly, as if encouraged by Mary Ann's opinion. It was a pretty little bird one golden yellow from beak to tail, as though it had been dipped in sunshine. "You see, sir," she cried eagerly, "it's beginning already." "Yes," said Lancelot grimly; "but so is Beethoven." "I'll hang it high up in the window," said Mary Ann, "where the dog can't get at it."
Depths are from 8 to 20 fathoms over a broken piece of bottom, except for a mud gully about 3 miles from the main running NE. and SW. about 3 miles long. In general, this is a small-boat ground, where good catches of cod and haddock are made in spring and fall, especially in the latter season, with good hand-lining for cod in July and August in 8 and 10 fathom depths.
These run NE. and SW., the eastern shoal about 8 miles long by 1 mile wide, the western about half as large. Fippenies bears E. 1/4 S. from Thacher Island, distant 61 miles; from Portland Lightship, SE. by S. ½ S, 57 miles to the western point of the northern shoal in 35 fathoms. The bank is nearly 10 miles long NE. and SW. and averages 4½ miles wide.
"P.S. I send by this post a Reverie, called Marianne, which is the best thing I have done, and should be glad if you could induce Brahmson to look at it." A big, sudden blaze, like a jubilant bonfire, shot up in the grate and startled Beethoven into silence. But the canary took it for an extra flood of sunshine, and trilled and demi-semi-quavered like mad. "Sw eet! Sweet!"
"St-t-top him," said the quartermaster, snailing lazily along from the mess-tent, where he had been lunching; "h e d-doesn't know that if h e g-g-goes c-clear over h e'll w ind up the sw ing." With such energy was that strong man cannonading himself through the air that at each extremity of his increasing arc his body, standing in the swing, was almost horizontal.
It was the best thing that could happen to Mary Ann the best thing in the world. And then the world wouldn't know. "Sw eet," went the canary. "Sw eet." This time the joy of the bird penetrated to his own soul the joy of life, the joy of the sunshine. He rang the bell violently, as though he were sounding a clarion of defiance, the trumpet of youth.
The shoalest water lies from 4 to 5 miles N. by E. from the buoy, where there is 22 fathoms. Ordinarily there is little or no tide, with an occasional current SW. There are, however, strong westerly currents with the heavy easterly winds, and often after a period of mild weather with no strong tides there will suddenly develop a heavy SW. flow, indicating the approach of a strong northwester.
It is about 1½ miles long in a NE. and SW. direction by 1/4 mile wide and has a mud bottom with depths from 35 to 50 fathoms. It is mainly a small-boat ground, fished mostly in the summer, when hake are fairly abundant and there are a few haddock and cod. It is a lobster ground, also. Shell Ground. This lies SE. from Long island Head, from which the center of the ground is distant 6 miles.
In general, this is a small-vessel ground fished by craft from Cutler, Eastport, Grand Manan, and, to a less extent, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, with an occasional visit by craft from Portland and Rockland, chiefly trawlers of moderate size. Tides run NE. in flood and SW. on the ebb and are quite strong, the flood being the heaviest.
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