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few rods east of the highest point of the rocks on the south side 

 of this lane near the Plain. 



Scattered here and there, in the thick natural shrubbery on the 

 water side, are the pretty, quaint cottages of those who spend 

 their summers by the sea. All along this shore formerly, from 

 Whitehead to Pleasant Beach, were Saltworks, — among them 

 Parson Flint's Saltworks. 



Beach Street, which we have been following, is the old Tower's 

 Lane. We will retrace our course over it, to the private way 

 which leads to Cuba Dam, where now is the bridge flung across 

 the waterway which divides the territory over which we have 

 been passing from Beach Island. Here one might well linger 

 for hours to watch the rushing waters which foam and swirl 

 through this narrow, rocky inlet, which lets the sea into the 

 otherwise completely landlocked, most picturesque, and exquisitely 

 beautiful sheet of water called in early days Littel Harbour (Lit- 

 tle Harbor) or Old Harbour. 



Whale's Valley is near Cuba Dam, in Old Harbor. A whale 

 is said to have once gone up the inlet into this harbor. 



This inland bay, with its greatly diversified shores, "-The Ridge 

 Road " along the precipitous bank at the west, wooded hills on 

 points making out into it here and there, low sandy beaches and 

 Beach Island dividing it from the sea ; and containing Cooper's 

 Island, Rice's Island, and Little Rock within its waters, is a 

 fascinating localitv for the admirers of line secnerv. 



On Cooper's Island are The Indian Pot and The Indian Well. 

 The former is a curious excavation, round, smooth, and regular, 

 having a capacity of about a dozen pails. The Indian Well is 

 another excavation near the first one described. From the bot- 

 tom it is elliptical to the height of about four feet. The re- 

 mainder is semicircular, opening to the east. 



These excavations arc glacial pot-holes, but may have been 

 used by the Indians for various purposes ; and from the fact of 

 hatchets and other aboriginal implements having been found 

 in the ground near by, the early settlers supposed them to have 

 been the work of the Indians. 



Cuba Dam derived its name from there having been a dam 

 built by a company of Hingliam and Cohasset people about the 

 beginning of the century, across the inlet, to shut out the sea, 

 and enable them to reclaim the Little Harbor, which it was 

 thought would eventually become very profitable as hay fields. 

 This was all very well until the great storm of April, 1851, 

 which left nothing intact upon the shores which the sea could 

 possibly destroy, tore this dam to pieces : and it has never, hap- 

 pily for the scenery, been rebuilt. \n the old days vessels were 

 built at Little Harbor. 



The bridge across the inlet at Cuba Dam leads to Beach 

 Island, a partly wooded eminence rising from the beach sur- 

 rounding it, and as romantic a spot for the fine seaside resi- 

 dences situated on the easterly slope as could be desired. 



