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tNTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE CUf^. 



Editor Forest and Streayn: 



I beg to acknowledjre further contributions fas follows: Through 

 Henry A, Harri&on, Purser Newburgh Canoe and Boating Associa- 

 tion; 



Mr. Nate S. Smith (A. C. A, No. 153) SI 00 



Mr. James T. Van PaJfseu (A. C. A. No. 561J 1 00 



Mr. W. G. Van T.iaifs.'n lA. 0. A. No. 502) 1 00 



Mr. arant Edsar. Jr. i A. C. A. No. 563) 1 00 



Mr. Henry A. Harrison (A. C. A. No. 620) . . , 1 00 



Mr. James Z. Borers, Peterborougb. Out 

 Mr. E. H. Barney, Sprinpfleld, Mass. . 

 Mr. G. M. Banier. SpringQeld, Mass 



$5 00 

 1 00 

 1 00 

 1 00 



5 00 



Previously acknowledjred 64 00 



Total to date. $72 00 



Wm. Whitlook. Chairman. 

 No. 37 West Twentt-Segoito Strbet. Dec. 19, 1884. 



WIDE AND NARROW CANOES. 



THE t'ollowing letter was received for publication last week, but 

 lack of space prevented its insertion then: 

 Editor Forest and Stream: 



In his letter ia the Fobust and Stream oP Dec. 17, Mr. Clapham 

 rather dodges the questions asked of him, and gives only some amus- 

 ing generalities in place of any definite statements justifying or 

 supporting his attack on the canoe. As far as his new boat is con- 

 cerned, no matter what relation slie may bear to existing canoes or 

 to the A, C. A. rules, if she proves a safe, speedy and comfortable 

 craft that will meet the requirements of any boating men. let us have 

 her by all means, and if she is adapted for cruising and not merely 

 for racing, the Association can do nothing better than to admit ner. 



T give Mr. Clapham all credit for ms honest efforts to improve our 

 sailing boats, but could he not have accomplished as much without 

 starting out, hke "Deja,'" with a wholesale attack on canoes ? I doubt 

 whether Mr. Clapham has ever been in a canoe, or whether he knows 

 mucb more about them than another critic proved to, but this does 

 not hinder him from saying that the two thousand or more who do 

 use such boats do not know what they want. The canoe of to-day is 

 the result of a thorough and complete system of evolution. She has 

 been the subject of careful study by many able men for over twenty 

 years, and for her purpose, including sailing on lakes and wide rivers, 

 she is not surpassed by any boat afloat, i do not mean to say that 

 no other boat can outsail a canoe, but that the latter represents a 

 better average of desirable qualities than any boat of similar size. 

 That she is xmsafe, imhandy, cranky, dangerous or uncomfortable in 

 a greater degree than is necessary in any small boat, neither Mr. 

 Clapham nor -'Beja" have yet proved. In her place, she is and probably 

 will be for a veiy long time unsuroassed. The only point to determine 

 is just when to abandon a canoe for a larger boat. 



For ordinary racing as at the meets, she answers fully the purpose 

 of himdreds who use ber, which is very good proof, taken with her 

 performances at times against much larger boats, of her exceUence 

 in that particular. For general cruising on American water courses 

 with the average amount of laud transport, beaching and stowage, 

 for carrying one man and his stores, for propulsion by sail and man- 

 ual labor combined, she is far ahead of any other type of boat yet 

 produced. The work done by the ordinary 15x30 canoe speaks for 

 Itself. Cruises down the full length of the Delaware, the Susque- 

 hanna, the Hudson, St. Lawrence. Ohio and Mi.ssissippi rivers, in 

 waters varying from a trout brook to Delaware Bay and the Gulf of 

 Mexico, have been made over again without an upset. Sucli voyages 

 are on record as established facts, but as soon as a man has a new 

 boat to introduce he quietly ignores their evidence and starts out with 

 the preamble: 



"Whereas, all canoes are dangerous, unhandy, complicated, tm 

 sportsmanliKe. and fitted with such pernicious devices as lug sails, 

 cam cleats, paddles, steering gear, lead keels, patent ancliors, aprons, 

 liatchee, etc., and do not combine in one small boat the speed of the 

 racing sbell. the sailing prowess of the Puritan, the stowage capacity 

 of an ocean steamer, and the seagoing qualities of a pilot boat. Re- 

 solved, that all canoeists at once purchase and use So and So"s patent 

 brass mounted, copper-lined, combination canoe-cutter-sharpie with 

 automatic sneakbox attachment, built of specially rolled sheet steel 

 and thoroughly fastened with best brown paper, laid in vinegar 

 cement."' Kow. gentlemen, who wish to reform tbe canoe, cannot 

 you admit that the men who have devised, built and used canoes, 

 know at least a little as to what they want and the qualities of the 

 boats they use? 



There are many open waters for which canoes are toolsmall, but the 

 length and breadth of Long Island Sound is traversed every year by 

 them, and a Class B canoe, in the hands of a fairly expert man, 

 exercising ordinary judgment and caution, as a sailor should, is 

 perfectly fitted for summer sailing on this or wider waters. If, how- 

 ever, sailing in open water is the sole or principal end in view, then 

 the field opens to the larger boat, a better sailer, perhaps, but not to 

 be paddled, and less of an '"all around" craft. There is room in this 

 couniiry for an immense fleet of these: large canoes, small sharpies, 

 sneakboxes, canoe yawls, of models to suit all localities; but this 

 does not prove a single fact against the good quaUties of the A. C. A. 

 canoes. As to Mr. Clapham's proposed boat, it is too s oon to criticise 

 without knowing more about it, but I will venture to predict that, if 

 built to his proposed specifications, as I understand them, 15 feet by 

 37, or even 42 inch beam, 6 inch draft, and say 115 pounds weight, 

 without other ballast than a 30-pound board, that she will not be in 

 any sense uncapsizable, and that she will not be either safe or handy 

 for a man who has not the skUl to handle a good Class B canoe. 



To any canoeist Mr. Clapham's insinuations about lead keels on 

 canoes and tbeir other imdesirable qualities will carry no weight, 

 but lest they should convey a very faJse idea to novices, I venture to 

 assert that not 3 per cent, of the existing canoes have lead keels or 

 any considerable amount of fixed ballast, that canoes can be and 

 many are sailed with no baQast, and that a good canoe in cruising 

 trim can be made to float safely herself and load, and lend sufiBcient 

 aid to her crew. A sailing race only between a canoe and the new 

 boat would prove nothing in regard to the question in disput-e. It 

 ■would be easy to build a sailing machine that would outsail the 

 average canoe, built nuder many rules and restrictions, in most 

 weathers. Is;Mr. Clapham looking for another glorious victory such 

 as he boasts of , in which a large sail-boat, with racing sail, beat a 

 jury -rigged canoe in little more than a drifting match? There is 

 plenty of good work to be done, canoeists are growing up and pro 

 grossing and some day will want larger boats. Tliey will be glad of 

 Mr. Clapham's aid. but he can accomplish just as much without de 

 predating and misrepresenting the CiJiSS B Canoe. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Perhaps, should Mr. Clapham and the other fellow give us a de- 

 finition of a canoe, I might be able to understand why it is that he 

 uses the term "canoe" to desigate his "honest, roomy little cruiser." 



If cauoes are what they are stated to be — "a disgrace to her ances- 

 tors,'' "an umbrella," &c.— Mr. Clapham should avoid classing his 

 boats with such disreputable craft. Tbe very use of the word "canoe" 

 therefore tnplies either that he and the other fellow do not know what 

 a canoe is. or that the canoe of to-day is not a canoe. 



Mr. Clapham "whispers" that it was the other fellow. Why is this? 

 Is Mr. Clapham ashamed of the fact that in order to strengthen his 

 ca,noe he must endeavor to weaken and run down those now in use? 

 He will not likely succeed in maldng converts from the ranks of can- 

 oeists by this method. That there are men who are not fit to be can- 

 oeists is well Itnown. Perhaps I am unjust to Mr. Clapham. It may 

 be that the other fellow is also responsible for the ,aecond article on 

 "wide and narrow canoes." Should.this be the case it might be well 

 for Mr. Clapham to institute proceedings lo restrain such articles 

 which to say the least are apt to injure his reputation as a canoeist. 



Washington, D, C. L. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I am tempted once more to risk making myself ridiculou s by reply- 

 ing to a question which I could hardly have ima.giued could ever be 

 seriously asked, viz , the second one oE "Hal's," "What is the objec- 

 tion to making changes in the A. C. A. rules to meet that class of 

 larger canoes?" To his first question I should say there is no objec- 

 tion in their proper place, though he gives me credit with being too 

 narrow-minded to admit of any merit m a boat for which I have im- 

 mediate personal use. But the most obvious objection to a change 

 in the A. C. A. rules to adroit boats of 42in. beam is. that it would at 

 once cause a conflict of interests: tbe location for a meet most suit- 

 able to the majority of the Association, as at present constituted will 

 not be acceptable to the new comers, as friend "Hal" is bound to 

 admit, seeing he lias already proposed a salt water meet. 



I fancy, Mr. Editor, that when you used the words "legitimate 

 cruising craft," which "Hal" quotes, your ideas were far from the salt 

 water which surrounds your abode; for. if otherwise, where would 

 this thing stop? If the rules were changed to take in 42in. boats, 

 would not 48in. have an undeniable right to demand admittance? 

 And so the thing would go, like the row of bricks of our childhood, 

 imtil a certain party I wot of, now on the other side of tbe globe, 

 engaged in a two years' cruise aroimd the world in a 300-ton schooner, 

 would on their return at once apply for admission to the A. C. A., for 



are they not "legitimate cruisers?" No, no, my dear "Hal." if your 

 heart is set upon a 43in. craft, don't waste time try ing to convince 

 the A. C. A. they need such a class, but go and join the American 

 Single-Hand Cruising Club, if indeed that body has not seen the 

 testmiony of -'Charis" in that same Forest and STREAJt to the effect 

 that a lo>4x4'i "canoe' is not even a single bander, but a yacht re- 

 quiring two men to manage her. 



I should like to review "Hal's" entire article-especially such cool 

 assumptions as that of the weight of a 43in. boat being no greater 

 thanoneofSOin beam— but out of consideration for your readers I 

 refraui. But just one question T will permit myself: About those 

 two canoes of the Newburgh Club in "Long Shanks' ' hsts--does he 

 mean the Dido and Day Dream? And which one is it that is benefited 

 by the change-' Also, how does he justify a classification which 

 separates two twiu canoes (Sea Bee and Inertia), built from tbe same 

 moulds by the same man? Katrina. 



A GUTTA PEBCHA BOAT FOR "DEJA."-I have sold the Eagle 

 for more than she cost after almost four years' use, and am confi- 

 dently looking forward to a gutta percha ship large enough to admit 

 of a little cabin without impairmg her saihng qualities, and small 

 enough to secure portability by dispensing with ballast, ohe will be 

 moulded m one solid piece, smooth as glass, and capable of holding 

 together longer than any toggled conglomeration of wood and copper. 

 If canoeists Vill be kind" enough to honor her with the dignified title 

 of yacht I shall feel grateful, and hasten to assure them that I enter- 

 tain the greatest respect for their good opinion, although a waterline 

 len.gth of 19ft. is rather limited for a "waltzer" of that description. 

 One of the many correspondents who intends to build finds it neces- 

 sary to limit his draft of water to 3ft. He is a resident of British 

 Honduras, where the mouths of the rivers are shallow; but, like sev- 

 eral others who have taken the trouble to write to me, finds my 

 design just the thing for his part of the world, as it promises more 

 comfort than a canoe, without any great excess of expenditure in 

 either time or money. I think if this gentleman will do as several 

 others have done— extend the forebody of my published design 

 enough to secure an extreme length of 17ft. on the same beam and 

 add only §m. to the draft of water- he wiU secure the best results ob- 

 tainable in so small a hull, becaiuse the ratio of increase in propul- 

 sion, as represented by an added but entirely safe sail area, far ex- 

 ceeds that of frictional resistance. The Eagle has fully demonstrated 

 "a fact" quite as substantial and certainly just as logical as the canoe, 

 namely, that speed results from a proper introduction of concen- 

 trated' displacement. It is depth and body which tell. These two 

 factors are quite as prolific as length, especially where comfort be- 

 comes one of the requisites. However, I have no misunderstandmg 

 with canoeists, and if they imagine that I am "a foe, it is sunply a 

 mistake on their part. I am only a sympathetic fnend, who would 

 aid them in their mLsfortunes by improving the primitive condition 



Forest and Streaji will reproduce anon.— Deja. 



NEW YORK C. C— On Christmas Eve two of the club. Mime and 

 Jersey Blue, were out for a moonlight paddle until 1 A. M. On 

 Christmas Day the crew of the Tomboy took their last sad, a pleas- 

 ant one, in sp'ite of the cold and a heavy cast wind. On returning, 

 her moorings were hove up. mast lowered and she was run in on the 

 beach, where she now reclines under the windows of Marmalade 

 Lodge. Next year she will come out with a heavier lead keel and a 

 mizzen. Com. Mnnroe is now having a 15x28 canoe from Everson s 

 shop, and Vice Commodore Stephens has partly decked a 15x30 canoe 



„ peculiar arrangement , 



with a rudder fastening invented by her owner. A suk flag has been 

 ofl'ered by a lady friend of the club for the first race won m l!-8fi. Mr. 

 Vaux has sold the Lark to Mr. Livingstone, also of the N. Y. C. C. 

 The handsome canoe put up at the fair of the Staten Island Athl«tic 

 Club was won by Mr. Charles Wardell, N. Y. C. C, owner of the Sun- 

 beam. 



A LONG CANOE CRUISE. -On July 4, Mr. "W. E. Hermance star- 

 ted m a canoe, 15ft x34in., from Livingston, M. T., for a cruise down 

 the Yellowstone, reaching St. Louis after a cruise of three months. 

 In the first 600 miles there are but two towns, while there are nine 



„ . trip - 



tures with cowboys and hostile Indians, but St. Louis was reached m 

 safety. 



ROCHESTER CO.— The annual dinner and election of oflicers took 

 place on Dec. 8, the meeting being held fli-st at the club rooms. The 

 officers elected were: C. H. Moodj . Captain; H. L. Ward, Mate; Geo. 

 H. Harris. Purser; S, C. Eaton, H. J. Wilson and C. F. Wolters, Ex- 

 ecutive Committee. A new constitution and by-laws were presented, 

 but action was deferred to tbe next meeting and the members ad- 

 journed to the Brockett House, where a dinner was laid for them. 



A CHANGE OF PARTNERSHIP.— Mr. F. Joyner,of Glens Falls, N. 

 Y., writes us that he has purchased the interest in the business of his 

 son, E. D. Joyner, and will hereafter conduct the business alone, 

 building the same line of canoes, light hunting boats and steam 

 launches for which the firm has besn so well knovm. 



BROCKA^LLE C. C.^This club will receive their friends on Wed 

 nesday, Dec. 40, at Victoria Hall, BrockviUe. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION.— Mr. H. C. Randolph. White- 

 stone, N. Y., is a candidate for membership. 



Address all communications to the Forest atid Stream Publish- 

 ing Co. 



THE CRUISE OF THE PILGRIM.-I. 



BY DR. W. H. WINSLOW. 



THE PUgrim was floated before dayhght, August 15, and wth 

 cruising rig, sailed in the third class of the Hull Yacht Club re- 

 gatta at 1 P. M.. the same day. without winning anything but applause 

 from the judges. We did not expect anything, and were rather 

 pleased at the performance of the new craft under the cramps of 

 newness. I had concluded to build a cruiser, late in the spring, hay- 

 ing become pretty well posted during the winter by reading the 

 Forest and Stream, in the colu'uns of which I had seen the plans 

 and description of the Mamie. Somehow she just struck my fancy 

 and suited my requirements and finances, and I began a correspon- 

 dence with the builder which ripened into a specific contract for a 

 similar craft. I gave him carte blanche as to lines, favoring the cut- 

 ter type. 



The boat is ^Ift. water fine, 26ft. over all. 7ft. beam, 5ft draft, with 

 a slender overhang and a stern 2t^ft. wide. The iron keel weighs 

 .3310lbs., and tliere are ISOOlbs. of cast iron ballast under the floor. 

 The rail is i^in. high; the cockpit is 4ft. long, 3J^ft, wide, six inches 

 below the deck and sis above, and has a 9in. wide seat upon the top 

 of its staving. The .'cabin trunk is 7tSft. long, oft. wide and 1ft. high 

 and has rounded corners, a SOin. wide gangway and two oval win- 

 dows upon each side. 



The cabin was arranged according to a plan I hit upon in cogita- 

 ting over how I could make more sleeping room, and is somewhat 

 unique and just adapted to a small cruiser. The whole interior of 

 the boat was left open from the eves to the run. An oil stove was 

 fitted upon a shelf m the fore peak; a shelf above and a cross piece 

 below furnished two good storage places. A series of divided and 

 railed shelves for dishes and stores w as built upon the right side as 

 far as the starboard transom, yet leaving room for passage between 

 them and the foremast. The port transom was lengthened when 

 necessary by a grating seat that reached past the foremast and fm-- 

 nished a seat for the cook, and bedroom, but when not in use, was 

 buttoned back against the sheathing. A small hatch was placed in 

 the deck over this for ventilation and cooling off. The tran.soms 

 were 18Ln. wide, a foot high, and extended from just behind the fore- 

 mast clear into the run. Their inside space made four large lockers, 

 their tops were covered by 4in. thick cusiiions for seats, and being 12ft. 

 in length, they made two good beds on each side, end on, 



A bulkhead only a foot deep formed the finish of the foward part 

 of the cockpit inside and the after Umit of the cabin proper, and, being 

 cut through at each end, it gave a long locker for guns, &c., upon 

 each side of the cockpit, beneath the deck proper. Just below this, 

 close up to the cockpit floor, the square 34gal. water tank was cased 

 in, having a faucet in its anterior face. There was room beneath the 

 tank and between the ti-ansoms for a goodly si/.ed ice box, and the 



fangway steps covered all. The remaining space under the cockpit 

 ehind the tank was cased up and made a good locker upon each 

 side, leaving a passage upon each transom alongside of the tank and 

 locker, about ijft. square, clear into the run, wliich was lighted by two 

 buUseyes set into the deck. This admirable arrangement not only 



afforded lots of snug and warm leg room for the two after bedp,_ bat 

 lel't tbe wbole run open to the cabin for stores, sails, I Ac, without 

 cutting an after hatch. The value of these lateral passages for storing 

 bedclothes and overcoats, &c., temporarily during the day was in- 

 calculable, and the amount of camp equipage and stores that little 

 .lack stowed in tbe run loaded a down -east truck team. 



The stern was narrow and the overhang of cutter type, therefore 

 the room behind the rudder post was tongue shaped. At the extreme 

 stem lay a rolled shelter tent wh:ch Jack had packed in closely, yet 

 I, a 5ft. "Oin. man, weighmg 1651bs., and a little stiff from rheumarj.sm. 

 crawled back upon the port;transom with arm extended and succeeded 

 in getting two fingers hold of the cloth and pulled it out. 



The head room was 4ft. Tiin., enough for any ong to dress in. and 

 one could also push back the gangway slide and extend his length 

 and caput to the gale if he so desired. More would have been pref- 

 erable, but when one reflects that it necessitates in =ucb a single 

 hand yacht a higher trunk and more surface exposed to wind an 4 

 sea, an elevation of tbe main boom and sails, and an ejfcursion-barge 

 style, one will prefer a little genuflexion. 



The store-room, kit<rhen and reception room having been consid- 

 ered, it only remains to de.scribe the latter when fitted up as a bed 

 room. The cushioned transoms were covered with bed clothes, 

 hauled out of the run, two pillows were placed side by side across 

 their middle, so that the sleepers should lie head to head; a short 

 mattress was laid upon the floor. 3Et. Oin. wide, from tbe foremast 

 aft-, and another bed made upon it. This still left room at its foot for 

 undressing, and tbe clothes were placed under the pillows to make 

 them higher. Thus this httle vessel afforded ocmplete and 

 comfortable hotel accommodations for five persons, and when one 

 was kept on watch, for six— unprecedented in so small a craft. 

 There were sis on board during the erui,se as far Portlaid, and 

 five during toe balance of the season. 



The hull was that of a beamy cutter, the rig that of a sloop. The 

 sails were the jib, mainsail, gafftopsail, and spinnaker. There Was a 

 261b. working anchor with 20 fathoms of tiding rope, and a 4-31b. 

 anchor with 30 fathoms of rope for heavy weather, and this latter 

 saved us fi'om going ashore and let us sleep in confidence many 

 nights, for winds and currents are treacherous. A light 12ft. cedar 

 boat towing astern completed our outfit. 



Provisions and ship stores were aU aboard and stowed; adieux were 

 said; the mainsail was hoisted; the yacht ensign run up to the main 

 peak, and the South Boston Y'acht Club signal to the truck;the anchor 

 was pulled up and catted ; the jib hoisted ; sheets were trimmed down, 

 and, with three hearty cheers from all hands for E. L. Widiams, the 

 builder, who was taking notes of om- appearance in a boat a hundred 

 yards away, we started down Mas=achuetts Bay August 20, 1885. 

 The wind was light and sea smooth as we crawled past Deer Island, 

 and up toward Nahant. and the four liberated school boys laid around 

 upon the house and deck in the sunshine and resolved that going to 

 .sea in a yacht was one of the most delightful things imaginable. Off 

 Egg Rock a skimming dish sloop crept up behind and was about to 

 pass us, when the wind freshened and shifted so that both boats had 

 to trim down flat on the port tack. Then we held our own and ate 

 up to the windward till the skimmer was half a mile to leeward and 

 about abeam. Then the wind died away and we rolled and slatted in a 

 dead calm for two hours, when the wind came out to the eastward, 

 striking our adversary first and giving her a good start, so that she 

 led us into Marblehead, where we arrived and anchored off the 

 Eastern Club House, at 5 P.M. Everything was made snug, the oil 

 stove lighted, the supper started and we amused ourselves looking 

 through the marine glasses at a lawn tennis tournament behind the 

 club house and at the pretty cottages and villas along the neck. 

 There were few yachts in port and nobody took any notice of our 

 Httle craft and the colors pioudly floating up aloft. 



Nowhere outside of Massachusetts Bay did any club men show us 

 the least attention, except at Portland, where two gentlemen not 

 only visited us and tendered the hospitalities of the club, but took 

 the" trouble to send aboard their craft, bring aboard a set of charts 

 and instruct me upon a difficult piece of water that I had to pass 

 through in my voyage to the eastward. Bless them for their kind- 

 ness and intelligent sympathy. I wish I could give their names here 

 that they might be" knowm the world over. I concluded aftex 

 a while that my beautiful, English looking craft excited en\^v in the 

 minds of club men, and our bold sailing, far beyond the limits of 

 pleasure sailing for little fellows made them green with jealousy, sa 

 I did not nesitate to anchor under their nases and blanket them 

 whenever I had an opportunity, and never.expected any more cour- 



An anchor watch was kept, because Marblehead is a rough place 

 in an easteriy, but the night was quiet, and the boys had their fli-st 

 opportunity 'of studying stars and stellar spaces. After the deck 

 was washed down and the ship pumped, breakfast was eaten on the 

 house, and then a stroll was taken through the town, where some 

 hoodlums were disposed to make fun uf blue shirts, belts and 

 sheath knives. We returned aboard with some fruit and news- 

 papers, 'made sail at 11 A. M. with a good wind from the S. S. E.. 

 passed Cat and Baker's Islands, and shaped our course for Eastern 

 Point, expecting to go into Gloucester, but up with tlie point, the 

 weather was so favorable, we kept on our way along the north shore. 

 We sawwhat we supposed was Thatcher's Island, with its two high 

 lignt houses, and kept on seeking to open a passage between it and 

 MUk Island, which of course lay along shore so that we could not 

 separate it from the mainland. So we thought. 



Suddenly we noticed that the iight-houses were traveling over the 

 island, oi. iu other words, were going to the right faster than the 

 island, and then, looking at the chart, we were startled to find we 

 had Milk Island on our starboard bow. covering Thatcher's, and were 

 trying to run between it and the mainland directly upon.the rock«. 

 There is a passage through here for light draft vessels at high tide to 

 those who know the way", but it is not safe for a stranger, Fortun- 

 ately we were not too far in, and, by trimming flat down, we headed 

 around Milk Island and soon opened the passage inside of Thatcher's 

 where we found buoys and a clear channel. Thatcher's is a bold, 

 rocky -shored isle with rather level grass land and two magnificent 

 lighthouses, and the scenery opposite along the coast and up to 

 Siraitsmouth Island and ^around to Rockport is grand and impos, 

 iDg. The southeast seabeats upon the adamantine walls of rcK?k that 

 gird the sea coast with asuUen roar; great streams of water rush far 

 into crevices and crannies, seeking further and further, as they foam 

 against obstacles, to find some place to break the barrier, and then 

 retire quickly to the advancing swell to recruit theirforce and volume 

 for another attack; huge billows throw themselves against the mas- 

 sive ledges, as if to break them off, and then fly into great sheets of 

 spray which send a rainbow coloring over the cUffs and cover the 

 scanty berbage with glistening crystals of salt. The beauties of our 

 coast are rarely seen hj travellers, because few indeed skirt along 

 the shore in slowly sailing crafts and have tbe leisure and love of 

 nature essential to enjoyment. 



While admiring the situation and regardless of the shore being a 

 lee one I heard an ominous gulp and noticed that Billy had a pale 

 face and dew upon his forehead, and was hold'ug one hand upon 

 the rail and making profound obeisances and unsavory contribu- 

 tions to Neptune. The other boys were lively and inclined to joking, 

 but I cautior ed them to be charitable, for the time would surely 

 come when they wou id be called upon to do homage to the great 

 ocean sovereign. 



We had a free wind after passing Oak Kock buoy, and kept away 

 for Straitsmouth, passed pretty near the island and jibed over for 

 Rockporlj— one of the blindest harbors upon the coast. A stranger 

 must be careful here. There are several quarries and great piles of 

 broken stone around Rockport shores, and it is very diffictilt to say 

 where the little haven is. The shore is bold, and it is better to run 

 along shore, coming from Straitsmouth, inside of Harbor Rock buoy 

 until the narrow entrance opens out and the breakwater (merely a 

 high ridge of irregularly piled stones) is seen to starboard, when one 

 can run in boldly, keeping a little to port, and anchor rather close in 

 shore in order to keep clear of the fishing vessels, which frequenty 

 seek a harbor here. This is not in the Coast Pilot and may be use- 

 ful. 



We poked along anxiously till we found the wa,y, and arrived at 

 anchor in the inner harbor at 5 P. M. — not a bad run for a small 

 craft, from Marblehead in six hours. We went ashore for milk, 

 tread and newspapers, had a good supper of warmed turkey, succo- 

 tashretc, of which our seasick boy partook heavily, and we laid 

 quietly all night. 



The sea coast near this place is not yet occupied by summer cot- 

 tages, but it is one of the finest of any we found. 



Rockport is a queer antique sort of a place, and reminded rae of 

 Marblehead as it was years ago. I ^uess there is aboutjone train aday 

 to Boston, which will wait a few minutes for a passenger if he sends 

 word he is coming. The people probably get up very early and go 

 to bed early, and the man who does not go to church reguliiriy is re- 

 garded with suspicion. Some fishermen we met were very peculiar 

 in dress and language, but were kind and ready to aid us when in 

 trouble next morning with the anchor. Good holding grotmd? I 

 should say so. We had down the 261b. anchor and six men and boys 

 could not start it. One of the oU coated fishermen helped us run out 

 a line to a mooring, warp our craft over and beyond tlie anchor, and 

 then get it by capsizing and hauling it from the stern. It. took all oiu- 

 force even then . 



We slept late and, when the anchor was up. it was 11 A. M., and a 

 heavy shower was coming up black and ugly from the S. W.. so we 

 held on and took a heavy fall of rain, diyly housed in the cabin, a 

 more preferable place than on deck at sea". Then we had a hasty 

 lunch of tongue, bread and jumbles, and started at noon with a, 

 strong S. W, wind for Portsmouth. 



[to be OONnNTBD.J 



