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[Fred Nerks]

Earth In Upheaval

page 87.

Peculiar elliptical depressions, or “oval craters,” locally called “bays” are thickly scattered over the Carolina coast of the United States and more sparsely over the entire Atlantic coastal plain from southern New Jersey to northeastern Florida. These marshy depressions are numbered in the tens of thousands and, according to the latest estimate, their number may reach half a million. Measurements made on the more prominent ones, seaward from Darlington, show that the larger bays average 2200 feet in length, and in single cases exceed 8000 feet...

(here I go, Google Earth again!)