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A CANAL CUT BY THE STORM.The Dover Seatinsl sayat “Another effect of tbo Immense quantity of tftiter driven Into the marshes la that the ebb-tlds cat a good-sized creek across the beach between Thorn Point and Slaughter B£*cb,through whlck vessels might sail at tygh water. A channel was cut through tba beach, abont one mile above the tnontfh ofMlspUllon Creek, of adetph that, stiudln?on the bottom at low water, the top of the Unht-houso cannot be 6een over the beaph; It is full eight feet deep. Bo snbatsntlallfwas the light-house embankment put lip, that the storm (lid no^materially Injure It, the damage to It arose from cutting tb let* out the water, after the water on1 the SMTshoutside bad gone off. jvv/ -
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Wilmington Morning Herald
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Mon, Nov 11, 1878
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