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many as twenty thousand persons visit the place ; and, 

 during a portion of the time, there are as many as five 

 thousand at once — or, including children and servants, six 

 thousand. 



There are twenty-four public boarding-houses, varying 

 in their capacity to accommodate boarders from fifty to five 

 hundred each. 



Beesley's Point, on Great Egg Harbor, has two public 

 and several private boarding-houses; and is a pleasant 

 resort for sea bathing. The beach is about two miles from 

 the Point. Sail-boats, provided by the keepers of the 

 houses, are used to convey boarders to the bathing ground. 

 Those who enjoy sailing, or the sports of fishing and hunt- 

 ing, find this a delightful location. The whole shore, from 

 one end of the county to the other, is much resorted to by 

 visitors. 



" The character of the bathing ground opposite Beesley's 

 Point, and also along the beaches extending to the point 

 of the Cape, is good ; but near, and immediately at the 

 Island, the shore becomes more steep, or less flat ground 

 between high and low-water mark; consequently, the surf 

 approaches nearer the main land, and a stronger current 

 of the tide — ^particularly the under-current, or under-tow, 

 as it is termed — which, at near low water, with the wind 

 north or northeast, is of such strength as to make it dan- 

 gerous for persons venturing out so far as to lose a firm 

 foothold. Most of the accidents that have happened to 

 bathers here, have arisen from want of knowledge, or 

 inattention to this fact." 



