90 BACK OF THE BAY. 



gently to a pond beyond. The pond lies about 225 feet above 

 the sea level, while the top of the ridge is about 275 feet, thus 

 making a difference of level between the two of fifty feet. The 

 slope of the bank in front is some thirty degrees. It is evident 

 that an immense glacier, receiving arms it may be from several 

 quarters of the country in the interior, made its stand here, 

 and thence crept down into the sea polishing off this ridge, and 

 scooping out the basin of this part of the bay. It is along the 

 bank of the eastern part of this cove that the old colonists chose 

 their abode, and fixed their huts. At a late day foundations of 

 these were still standing, and I have been informed that there are 

 those now living who have dug up old copper coins, and relics 

 of various other kinds about this same place. No signs of either 

 relics or foundations are now to be found, although the most 

 careful search has been made all about these regions. The second 

 circular division of this beach presents a totally different aspect 

 from that just described. Its central point is a mass of rocks, and 

 rocks continue in greater or less profusion all along to the end 

 of the bay, though especially abundant right in this particular place. 

 There is a raised bank or platform, about one-quarter of a mile 

 long, and thirty or forty rods deep, through which flows a small 

 stream which has evidently eaten its way to and gradually sunk 

 within a few feet above high tide, while the bank itself is scarcely 

 twenty feet above the sea. Back of this are the hills, from three to 

 four hundred feet high. Close on the rocky shore the kind people, 

 who so cordially entertained us at Old Fort island, have their 

 "winter quarters," while another family occupies the other side of 

 the point. The little island opposite the house is one huge mass 

 of rock, covered with scanty vegetation. 



A remarkable formation exists just east of the house. You can 

 pass by the large rock at the left of the building only at low tide, 

 when you come to a sand cove and sand bar, the latter bare at 

 high tide, that connects with another rocky mass, which, extending 

 towards the sea, corresponds in its nature to the island above 

 mentioned ; all around is rock and mud, yet this little strip of sand 



