Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of Maryland. January, 1880 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... current of the Wicomico, when it turns to the westward. A strong current sets in and out of Rock Creek; over the Drumming Shoal and Cedar Rocks, the current sets N." N.E. on the flood, with a velocity of 0.4 of a mile per hour and S. S.W. on the ebb tide, with a velocity of 0.6 of a mile per hour. Over the beds south of the Shark's Fin and Cedar Rock, and north of Piuey Island Bar and Kedges Straits, the general set of the flood is to the northward, with an inclination towards Holland's Straits, when about Turtle Egg Island, and tending to the northward and westward off the Little Thoroughfare. The general set of the ebb while in the channel is to the southward, but on the Turtle Egg Island, Mud and Muscle Hole Rocks the set is to the southward and eastward. The strength of these and all currents in the Sound is much influenced by the winds that have prevailed during the immediately preceding days and which it was impossible to eliminate in the space of time covered by this investigation. Over the western beds, above Kedges Straits, the maximum observed velocity of the flood was 0.8 of a mile per hour, and a mean of all the velocities of the flood current was 0.4 of a mile per hour. The maximum observed velocity of the ebb current was 1.0 mile per hour, and the mean of all velocities of the ebb was 0.3 of a mile per hour. Over the Chain Shoal the maximum velocity of the flood was 0.37, and the mean velocity was 0.3 of a mile per hour. The maximum velocity of the ebb was 1.0 mile and the mean velocity 0.5 of a mile per hour. The flood current over Piney Island Bar sets N. N."W., or about in general line with the sound at that point. Its velocity on the third quarter, during and after northerly breezes, was 0.1 of a mile an hour, and probably it is...