THE SHIPWKECK. 
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interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of 
Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed 
out to me, on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting 
along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I 
should go through Eome, it would be some spring on the 
Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest. It is 
true, I was somewhat interested in the well at the old 
French fort, which was said to be ninety feet deep, with 
a cannon at the bottom of it. On Nantasket beach I 
counted a dozen chaises from the public-house. From 
time to time the riders turned their horses toward the 
sea, standing in the water for the coolness, — and I saw 
the value of beaches to cities for the sea breeze and the 
bath. 
At Jerusalem village the inhabitants were collecting 
in haste, before a thunder-shower now approaching, the 
Irish moss which they had spread to dry. The shower 
passed on one side, and gave me a few drops only, 
which did not cool the air. I merely felt a puflP upon 
my cheek, though, within sight, a vessel was capsized in 
the bay, and several others dragged their anchors, and 
were near going ashore. The sea-bathing at Cohasset 
Kocks was perfect. The water was purer and more 
transparent than any I had ever seen. There was not 
a particle of mud or slime about it. The bottom being 
sandy, I could see the sea-perch swimming about. The 
smooth and fantastically worn rocks, and the perfectly 
clean and tress-like rock-weeds falling over you, and 
attached so firmly to the rocks that you could pull your¬ 
self up by them, greatly enhanced the luxury of the 
bath. The stripe of barnacles just above the weeds 
reminded me of some vegetable growth, — the buds, and 
petals, and seed-vessels of fiowers. They lay along the 
