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Its shores enclose many islands, and are indented with innumerable bays and inlets, the alluvial soils being readily adapted to fruit and vegetable growing, and its multitudes of shallows being almost throughout a vast oyster bed. It has, all about, the haunts of wild fowl and the nestling-places of delicious fish. These shores were the home--first on the eastern side and afterwards on the western--of the Nanticokes, or
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who ultimately migrated to New York to join the Iroquois or Five Nations, making that Confederacy the
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Six Nations. From Cape Charles, guarding the northern entrance to the Bay, extends northward the well-known peninsula of the
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Eastern Shore,