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Excerpt from The Animal Ecology of the Cold Spring Sand Spit: With Remarks on the Theory of Adaptation
Cold spring sand Spit runs from the west shore of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, eastward to within 100 or 200 feet of the eastern Shore Of the harbor. The history Of the formation of the spit is brie?y this Cold Spring Harbor (fig. I) is a fiord-like re-entrant about ten kilome ters long, emptying at its lower or northern end into Long Island Sound about one-fifth of the way from Hell Gate at New York city to The Race, south of New London. The Sound itself, 175 kilometers long by 35 kilo meters broad at its widest point, and having a prevailing depth Of about 30 meters, receives large streams Of water from the north - the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Quinnipiac rivers.
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