Paddling under Palmettos — page 179: what you’re looking at

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172 Paddling Under Palmettos. voyage lasted, to think of such mere cockle-shells upon the heaving bosom of the mighty ocean. Finally they sighted Lake Worth Inlet. The observations taken from the lighthouse tower at Jupiter and the directions obtained from the keeper were now valuable, and they ran the bar neatly, for their craft drew very little water. All of them kept well to the south in making the inlet, as is habitual along the coast, as the bar makes out from the northern end. To be plainer, when ap- proaching from the north it is well to thoroughly “open” the inlet before attempting to enter. The same can be applied to the St. Sebastian and other streams emptying into the Indian River, the bar al- ways lying to the north. The quartette of cruisers passed over the bar in fine style. This inlet had been made by the settlers themselves, for it was not a great many years ago that Lake Worth was a fresh-water lake, fed by small streams and water from the swamps. Now it is a fine sheet of salt water, with all the fish to be found at the inlets, and even oysters at one end. The inlet is near the upper end. Here the water is more shallow than further down, and one has to EM MICELCOL<S (E(0)