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Capt [[Nye?]] of one of the steamers of the Neptune line has been on the sound 30 years. The fogs occur with a wind from the southerly quarter Two kind of fogs one which apparently comes from the land and an other from the sea The land fog the most [[?]] it appears to come directly from the water surrounded by land [[end page]] [[start page]] Capt [[large space left perhaps for name?]] of the Elm city which plies between New Haven and New York informs me that fogs on the Sound are most frequently those without wind In winter if a South Easterly wind turns to the west and becomes a southerly wind [[underlined]] nine [[/underlined]] times out of [[underlined]] ten [[/underlined]] there will be fog If the Easterly wind viers to the east and so round through the North no fog will follow.