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ing is said, except that it is in good repair,” — both 
which remarks, I trust, may be understood as applying 
to the churches spiritual as well as material. However, 
elegant meeting-houses,” from that Trinity one on 
Broadway, to this at Nobscusset, in my estimation, belong 
to the same category with “ beautiful villages.” I was 
never in season to see one. Handsome is that hand¬ 
some does. What they did for shade here, in warm 
weather, we did not know, though we read that “ fogs 
are more frequent in Chatham than in any other part of 
the country; and they serve in summer, instead of trees, 
to shelter the houses against the heat of the sun. To 
those who delight in extensive vision,” — is it to be 
inferred that the inhabitants of Chatham do not? — 
‘Hhey are unpleasant, but they are not found to be 
unhealthful.” Probably, also, the unobstructed sea- 
breeze answers the purpose of a fan. The historian of 
Chatham says further, that in many families there is no 
difference between the breakfast and supper ; cheese, 
cakes, and pies being as common at the one as at the 
other.” But that leaves us still uncertain whether they 
were really common at either. 
The road, which was quite hilly, here ran near the 
Bay-shore, having the Bay on one side, and “ the rough 
hill of Scargo,” said to be the highest land on the Cape, 
on the other. Of the wide prospect of the Bay afforded 
by the summit of this hill, our guide says: “ The view 
has not much of the beautiful in it, but it communicates 
a strong emotion of the sublime.” That is the kind of 
communication which we love to have made to us. We 
passed through the village of Suet, in Dennis, on Suet 
and Quivet Necks, of which it is said, when compared 
with Nobscusset,” — we had a misty recollection of hav- 
