Endnotes
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Not far from here, in a river farther along the coast, I have seen a quite new dugout, like the boats of primitive man, hollowed with the axe out of a single tree. On a Russian river I have been in a boat scarcely less simple, with an Evinrude motor fixed over the stern, so near in Eastern Europe are the earliest and latest stages of civilisation. ↩
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I am told by hydrographers that it is probably incorrect to say that the wind causes the current through these channels. They say that wind and current are alike caused by pressure, or lack of it, elsewhere. To the simple sailormen of these parts, however, the fact remains that wind from the south brings current from the south, wind from the west brings a rise of water in the otherwise tideless Sound, wind from the east lowers the waters there, and in writing about these phenomena I have written as they speak. ↩