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Eastern Point, Little Good Harbor Beach, Fresh Water Cove, Mag- 

 nolia, Meeting-house Hill, Coffin's Beach, Wheeler's Point, Annis- 

 quam, all within the bounds of Gloucester ; or to Andrews' Point, 

 the northern horn of the Cape, near Pigeon Cove ; or to Pebble Stone 

 Beach and Long Beach, on the Massachusetts Bay side of the town 

 of Eockport. 



Encircled by the great road already described, is an extensive do- 

 main, partly of forest, traversed in every direction by uneven and 

 winding foot-paths ; and partly of pasture, with hills and hollows 

 destitute of trees, but strewn with boulders ; and with a few swamps, 

 thickly covered with stunted maples and pines, with black alders, and 

 with bushes and ferns. Many of the boulders all over the hundreds 

 of acres of treeless undulations, are immense ; and they are both 

 gray and black with patches and flecks of moss. 



Near the centre of this waste, are the cellars of an ancient settle- 

 ment, now overgrown with grass and weeds, and overrun by grazing 

 cattle and horses. And from its many elevations may be seen the 

 towers and steeples of the city of Gloucester, two or three strips of 

 Massachusetts Ba} r , some of the roofs of Riverdale and Wheeler's 

 Point, the village of Annisquam at the confluence of Lobster Cove 

 and 'Squam River, the estuary uniting 'Squam River with Ipswich 

 Bay, Flag-staff Ridge, overlooking the River and the Bay, and sep- 

 arating Annisquam from the Bay, Coffin's Beach, directly across the 

 estuary from Annisquam, and the white sand-hills near, and, farther 

 away, the knob called the Loaf, at the Chebacco River termination 

 of the curving beach. 



The atmosphere of these breezy elevations of the waste, is the 

 purest undef the skies. It is wholesome with the mingled breath- 

 ings of sea and land. 



With this description of the landscape and of the views of the 

 Bays and the River, the reader is in a mood to believe that the old 

 Cape, at any point, is grand and admirable as a summer abiding 

 place. If he yet is in doubt about it, let him spend one heated term 

 of July and August in an actual survey of the region put before his 

 mind in this attempt at painting in words. So will he learn that 

 there is more here than can be pictured by the most ingenious pen. 



