taiiiilig oyster and other marine shells, at a depth of eighteen feet.
As Lake Drummond has a sandy bottom and a depth of about
twenty-five feet we may readily picture a time, when, in the late
Pliocene, the sea bottom representing the portion of country be
tween the Janies River and Albemarle Sound, and between the
Curribuck and Virginia beaches, or present coast line and an old
sea beach marking the western limit of the swamp, had sufficiently
risen to inaugurate the formation of beaches and the casting of
beach drift, with the freshening of the waters behind the drift
barriers as their communication with the ocean was cut off more
and more. With these changes began a growth of peat on all
the shallows and the clogging up of the waters as well by in
creasing height of the shore drift as by vegetation. The central
portion now represented by Lake Drummond is then simply a
portion of Pliocene sea bottom which has not as yet been invaded
by the peat growth and the forests which followed after the shal
lowing due to the peat accumulation.
As a concluding word I would say that few localities afford
finer opportunities for fishing and hunting and for the zoologist
than do Lake Drummond, the Dismal Swamp, and the region of
the Curribuck Sound.
Where the roads turn—questions arise;
Which way follow ? Now am I wise ?
Where will this lead ? What will result ?
What shall Ido ? Shall I consult
Her? Yes I But who? Do you surmise?
Why Tess, of course I Why, her fair eyes—
Like guiding stars in His own skies—
Do seem to point the only way
Where the roads turn.
Womanly grace—heavenly prize—
Oh, ’tis therein the beauty lies ;
If future ways I’d have revealed
Then Tess, to thee I can but yield,
Then thee I choose the quiz to poise
Where the roads turn.
HOW THE ROBBER ESCAPED,
Officer Rooney stood on the corner of the avenue, idly swing
ing his club and watching out of the corner of his eye that
Ragsey and his gang didn’t get away with the contents of the
The Free Lance,
WHERE THE ROADS TURN,
[October,
G. R. Wieeand, ’93.
—Hinks Allen,