Should he wish to land, it is merely because he has seen a large flight of landrails or plovers, of wild ducks, teal, widgeon, or woodchucks, which fall an easy pray to net or gun.

Silver shad, eels, greedy pike, red and gray mullet, swim in shoals into his nets; he has but to choose the finest and largest, and return the others to the waters.

Never yet has the food of the stranger, be he soldier or simple citizen, never has any one, indeed, penetrated into that district.

The sun's rays there are soft and tempered: in plots of solid earth, whose soil is swart and fertile, grows the vine, nourishing with generous juice its purple, white, and golden grapes.

Once a week, a boat is sent to deliver the bread which has been baked at an oven--the common property of all.