Albemarle Sound

Yes, sir.

That's over near the Albemarle Sound, west of Edenton and Bath, which I went to earlier in the year.

You got to say Albemarle.

Like you got a mouthful more.

Some contacts also date beyond the narrow period of the colony's disappearance, As University of Bristol researcher Mark Horton cautioned, these are still just clues.

A different question lies inland near Western Albemarle Sound in Bertie County, at a location known as Site X.

Did a small group move toward an inland site that English planners had considered before the Chesapeake plan failed? Interest intensified after the British Museum examined John White's map, La Virginia Pass.

In 2012, specialists examining a paper patch found beneath it a small red and blue symbol resembling a fort near the western Albemarle Sound.

The map feature is real.

Its purpose, date and connection to the 1587 colonists remain disputed.

Flusser, who was personally firing the first shots, was struck by a fragment of a Dahlgren shell rebounding from the iron side of the ram and instantly killed.

His successor in command, seeing that if he remained he would simply be sacrificing his vessel uselessly, retired down the river to Albemarle Sound.

The post of Plymouth, surrounded on every side, fell into the hands of the Confederates.

The destruction of the Albemarle was thenceforward the principal object of the naval squadron in the Sound.

He's originally from Maryland and caught them in brackish water.

As we talked about, they're in Albemarle Sound in brackish water.

Yep.

They're in the Pamlico Sound in brackish water.

After much study, we finally concluded that tails were a source of trouble rather than of assistance, and therefore we decided to dispense with them altogether.

it seemed reasonable that if the body of the operator could be placed in a horizontal position instead of the upright as in the machines of lilienthal pilcher and chanute the wind resistance could be very materially reduced since only one square foot instead of five would be exposed as a full half horse-power could be saved by this change we arranged to try at least a horizontal position then the method of control used by lilienthal which consisted in shifting the body did not seem quite as quick or effective as the case required so after long study we contrived a system consisting of two large surfaces on the chanute double-tag plan and a smaller surface placed a short distance in front of the main surfaces in such a position that the action of the wind upon it would counterbalance the effect of the travel of the centre of pressure on the main surfaces thus changes in the direction and velocity of the wind would have little disturbing effect and the operator would be required to attend only to the steering of the machine which was to be effected by curving the forward surface up or down the lateral equilibrium and the steering to right or left was to be attained by a peculiar torsion of the main surfaces which was equivalent to presenting one end of the wings at a greater angle than the other in the main frame a few changes were also made in the details of construction and trussing employed by mr chanute the most important of these were one the moving of the forward main cross-piece of the frame to the extreme front edge two the encasing in the cloth of all cross-pieces and ribs of the surfaces three a rearrangement of the wires used in trussing the two surfaces together which rendered it possible to lighten all the wires by simply shortening two of them with these plans we proceeded in the summer of nineteen hundred to kitty hawk north carolina a little settlement located on the strip of land that separates albemarle sound from the atlantic ocean Owing to the impossibility of obtaining suitable material for a 200 square foot machine, we were compelled to make it only 165 square feet in area, which, according to the Lilienthal tables, would be supported at an angle of 3 degrees in a wind of about 21 mph.

On the very day that the machine was completed, the wind blew from 25 to 30 mph, and we took it out for a trial as a kite we found that while it was supported with a man on it in a wind of about twenty-five miles its angle was much nearer twenty degrees than three degrees even in gusts of thirty miles the angle of incidence did not get as low as three degrees although the wind at this speed has more than twice the lifting power of a twenty-one mile wind As winds of 30 miles per hour are not plentiful on clear days, it was at once evident that our plan of practicing by the hour, day after day, would have to be postponed.

Our system of twisting the surfaces to regulate the lateral balance was tried and found to be much more effective than shifting the operator's body.

And when you look at the pictures that we have, there's going to be a lot of pictures from hack loot.

This is actually a map that he drew of the Albemarle Sound, and you can see documenting little creatures in there.

These are one of the relations that comes from the hackloots.

Now, the area we're talking about is going to be the Albemarle Sound of North Carolina, the Carolinas.

And it is protected by this barrier of islands called the Outer Banks.

That's actually got a road on it.

There's not a lot of trees either.

So if you're going to plant a colony, you would probably want to go past those islands and get into these.

The Atlantic on the far side of the islands is louder, a continuous low roar that carries across the narrow width of the island on quiet nights, audible from the sound side as a kind of bass note beneath everything else, crickets in the marsh grass, frogs in the freshwater pools behind the dunes, the occasional cry of a night heron, sharp and brief, the wind in the live oaks, which is a particular sound, because the leaves of a live oak are small and stiff, and they click against each other rather than rustling.

Roanoke Island sits in this landscape the way it has always sat, low and flat between the Sound and the deeper water of Albemarle Sound to the north.

The stars above the outer banks are dense and clear, the way they are in places with minimal light pollution, the way they would have been in 1587 when the colonists looked up at a sky that contained the same constellations the English knew, Orion, the Pleiades, the Great Bear, arranged at slightly different angles because they were at a different latitude than London.

The colonists, see? would have seen those stars and recognised them as the same stars they had known in England, tilted southward, familiar and foreign at the same time.

And I think part of it was we started focusing on what we were getting from the folks on Roanoke Island, the folks in Columbia, the folks that were up in Elizabeth City.

Because on the north end of the Albemarle Sound, all that wind is pushing that water up there.

So we were so focused on that.

And then it started to realize, hey, we're not hearing anything from Hatteras.