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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape architects
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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comers. After dinner, with fine breeze, beat tlirough chants Row, but wind failed before reaching Burnt Coat Harbor, and it was another case of sweeps and towing. Augr. 3. Beat out thenarrow E. entrance ofBurnt Coat with verylight air, past Long Is-land and by Long LedgeBuoy up Somes Sound.Fine run up the Sound.Shopping at Somesville.Beat down the Sound,and being caught byflood tide and calm an-chored off FernaldsPoint. Mounted Fer-nalds Hill (Flying Mt.)in evening. Superb view. Aug. 4. Got underway at about 9 a. m.Light air to Great Head,then more breeze, andtook in topsail. Arrivedat Bar Harbor at 11.45.In p. M. took aboardErnest Levering andWillie Thayer, visitedCalf Island and an-chored at Point Harbor(Sorrento). Mei turn k-^^^ Narragansett Bay.
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/^S;ie OfE Portsmouth, N. H, A certain felicity of expression is already apparent, andparticularly his choice of simple words that fit. As the Sunshine was constantly visiting bays, rivers, andharbors previously unknown to all on board, and as it wasnot her custom to take a pilot, she was directed by the ad-mirable charts and Coast-pilots published by the U. S. Coast 20 GENERAL EDUCATION (1877 Survey. In the use and application of these guides Charlesearly became an adept. When the yacht was approachingan unknown passage or entrance, and it was desirable torecognize the guiding features of the land, Charles wasquicker than anybody else on board to discern the char-acteristic hill, headland, promontory, or island from com-parison with the contour charts, or with the profiles anddescriptions of the Pilot. He soon learned to conceive fromthe contour lines the aspect of the land represented, as itwould appear on his line of approach. This practice culti-vated his perception of the main fe

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