Sound Of Waterfowl/size Of Fish
Personal memory by Kirk Savage
1700 • Washington, DC
In what is now Washington, D.C., on the Potomac River, the flocks of ducks and geese were so immense that the sound of their wings as they took off was like the rumble of thunder. Also, Thomas Hariot reported on his travels there in 1585 that herring were far bigger than in England, some over two feet long, and that tortoises were sometimes over a yard wide.
Joseph Passonneau, Washington Through Two Centuries (New York : Monacelli Press, 2004), p. 35.
Thomas Hariot, A BRIEFE AND TRUE REPORT OF THE NEW FOUND LAND OF VIRGINIA (London, 1588), pp. 29-30, accessible online through: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/
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