2 CHIPMAN AND BRIMBLE HILLS. 



Montserrat is a section of Beverly quite abreast of its 

 neighbors in point of interest. Kecent real estate opera- 

 tions and road-building movements have brought it into 

 conspicuous notice. The new pipe road of the Beverly 

 Water Works, graded in 1885, opens a delightful drive-way 

 or ramble from the new station west of north to the foot 

 of Wenham Lake, and the new route takes the pleasure 

 seeker midway between the two reservoirs of Salem and of 

 Beverly and close to each, from the top of both of which 

 spread out before the eye, wonderful and quite dissimilar 

 views of southern Essex. The Salem reservoir, resting 

 on Chipman HilU on the left side of the pipe road, is 

 nearer Montserrat and Salem and commands a more varied 

 view than that of Beverly. When filled to the twenty 

 foot limit its water-surface stands at a height of one hun- 

 dred and forty-two feet above mean high tide. Of course, 

 the gravel walk about its top is several feet higher. The 

 gates were kindly opened for the day by the courtesy of 

 the Water Board of Salem. No high ground intervenes 

 between this point and Salem to cut off a most picturesque 

 and comprehensive view of the city, with a single exception 

 probably the finest to be had. In its water front the highest 

 point is near Powder House Hill on Mr. Peabody's pur- 

 chase, a point at which the proprietor has erected a com- 

 manding observatory of open trestle-work rising from a 

 base one hundred and twenty-six feet above mean high 

 tide, and rearing its highest outlook some fifty feet higher ; 

 so there is little to intercept a sweeping view from Chip- 

 man Hill seaward or towards Salem, and the Beverly res- 

 ervoir on Brimble Hill, though higher, has no better view 

 in these directions. 



The Beverly reservoir, on the right of the pipe road, is 



' See Essex Inst. Historical Coll., Vol. vni, p. 118; also Report of Transfer of 

 Salem Water Works to the City Authorities, Nov. 16, 1809. 



