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[model of a georgksman, 1882.] 



A Summer Trip to Georges. 



BY WALTER HILL, 



Outward Bound — Soundings — Lively Work — Fulling in the Cod and Halibut 

 — A Good Fare — Homeward Bound. 



As our bait is iced, and we are all ready for a start, you had better jump 

 on board and take a trip with us. We hoist mainsail and foresail, trip the 

 anchor, fill away the jib, and stand out of Gloucester Harbor. That little 

 island with the lighthouse on it, which we are leaving on the port or left 

 hand side, is Ten Pound Island, outside of which is the outer anchorage, 

 and still beyond is Eastern Point, also on the port hand, on which you ob- 

 serve is another lighthouse. To the westward of us the land stretches away 

 to Salem and Marblehead. Now turn and look at the scene we are leaving. 

 Beautiful, is it not ? The city of Gloucester is stretched out like a panora- 

 ma. The City Hall, a noble building, and the church steeples, are the most 

 prominent features ; not forgetting the Pavilion Hotel on the beach. The 

 innumerable fishing schooners, standing in all directions with their snow- 

 white cotton sails, give an animation to the scene not often equalled. Away 

 on the starboard quarter you may catch glimpses of the high-road to Mag- 

 nolia and Salem. 



And now, with a freshening breeze, the sun dipping to the westward, and 

 the land gradually fading behind us, we are bowling off with our head east- 

 southeast for Georges. There'll be fish on deck before to-morrow night if 



