Losing to Win

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Some distance above West Point there runs into the river a neck of land curving towards the south. It is covered with large oaks and elms, and though now bare and desolate, presents in summer a tangled mass of waving foliage. The small bay be tween this peninsula and the main-land is almost entirely filled with tremulous rushes, exposed at low tide beneath the water is a thick growth of tangled sea-weed.