CHAPTER 9. 

 . SUMMER ATTRACTIONS OF CAPE ANN. 



Of the sea-side places of summer sojournings and recreation on 

 our Atlantic coast, from East-port to Cape May, including Mt. Des- 

 ert, Old Orchard Beach, Hampton Beach, Newport, Long Branch, 

 and Atlantic City, none equal in all particulars united, the promon- 

 tory on which are located the city and parishes of Gloucester, and 

 the villages of Rockport and Pigeon Cove. 



As to altitude Mt. Desert is pre-eminent ; but the general eleva- 

 tion of Cape Ann, presented in hundreds of hills, ledges, bluffs, and 

 precipices, and in huge castellated and rounded rocks, is sufficient 

 for broad and various views. Besides, from the top of Thompson's 

 Mountain, in the West Parish of Gloucester, may be seen, on any 

 fair day, Bunker Hill Monument, and the domes of Wachusett, Mon- 

 adnock, Gunstock and Agamenticus. From Meeting-house Hill, in 

 the same parish, Butler's Hill at Annisquam, Pigeon Hill, Pool's Hill 

 and Great Hill, at Pigeon Cove and Rockport, and Lookout Hill and 

 Governor's Hill at Gloucester Harbor, the vision takes in more or 

 less of Massachusetts Bay, on the south side of the Cape ; and on 



