Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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Sunday July 17-1910, Forteau. It rained hard all day and we are bound for Mrs Flinn's house. At times we hear the fog horn of Point Ammon at the northeastern horn of Forteau Bay. Here there is also a Marconi station. In the afternoon Tom Kennedy and William Lynch called to see if they could do anything for us. They say the boat is rolling far more than it did with us on last Monday night. He also learned that one cut from Beland was thrown out of his bunk twice last night. Tomishiel is not so well with an upset stomach. Let us hope that the weather will settle down and forget the wind and rain. I was told that the tidal currents in the Chait of Belle Isle is as high as 6 knots per hour one way and 5-10 knots the other way. The more rapid flow depends on the weather and may be either east or west. This is another dispersion of fumes, the straits is only 10 to 15 mile wide and yet has the