CHAPTER 6. 



SHIPWRECKS AND FISHING LOSSES. TABLE OF GLOUCESTER FISHING 

 LOSSES FROM 1830 TO 1876. 



It might almost be said that every projection of land* or rock 

 along the rugged promontory on which the city is seated, has its 

 direful tale of death and disaster to relate, while not a few take 

 their local designations from sad scenes of shipwreck of which they 

 have been the unmoved witnesses. From Norman's Woe on the ex- 

 treme South, towards whose rough reef many a "sheeted ghost" 

 has swept since the disaster which tradition asserts gave it its name, 

 and whence between the fitful gusts may still be heard 



"the sound of the trampling surf 

 On the rocks and the hard sea sand ;" 



past Thacher's Island, where Anthony Thacher and his good-wife 

 were so strangely reunited on a summer morning in 1635 ; to Gal- 

 lop's Folly on the North ; all along the coast are barren islets and 

 jagged rocks with each its separate tale of disaster to narrate. 



