Each year it provides us with the opportunity to recall some of the courage of the past that has created the present and that challenges us to equal it in the future. The beauty and serenity of the Chesapeake Bay. its great tributaries. and the shores that limit them. even after 338 years of human traffic. give us an idea of the breathtaking beauty of the scene that greeted the eyes of the passengers on the Ark and the Dove in 1634. We can imagine the shipbound immigrants watching. as Father Andrew White described it: Birds diversely feathered ... eagles. swans. hernes. geese. bitters. duckes. partridge reade. blew. partie coloured and the like. by which will appears. the -place abounds not alone with profit. but also with pleasure. We are forced by the conditions that exist in the bay today to envy the purity of the Chesapeakes waters which Father White found to be "the most delightful water he ever saw. between two sweet landes" and there is a challenge in this description. It does not require the expertise of an environmental engineer to recognize the danger that now confronts the Chesapeake.
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