. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . to the Break-water. On this outer wall of Pigeon Cove Harbor,the near scene of fishermen at the wharves, and ofstone-sloops loading with granite to take to Bostonand other cities, is entertaining to those who havenot often looked upon it, and even to those towhom it has been a long time familiar. Turningabout and looking in the opposite direction, thenever uninteresting ocean, the always-the-sameand yet tlie ever-changing expanse of waves, glori-ous in the sun and gay with sailing craft of everydescription, is surveyed admiringly. From theBreakwater the marginal pa
. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . to the Break-water. On this outer wall of Pigeon Cove Harbor,the near scene of fishermen at the wharves, and ofstone-sloops loading with granite to take to Bostonand other cities, is entertaining to those who havenot often looked upon it, and even to those towhom it has been a long time familiar. Turningabout and looking in the opposite direction, thenever uninteresting ocean, the always-the-sameand yet tlie ever-changing expanse of waves, glori-ous in the sun and gay with sailing craft of everydescription, is surveyed admiringly. From theBreakwater the marginal path is followed alongthe shore to Singers Bluff, which overlooks thesea but a few hundred yards from the hotels. WALKS AND EAMBLES. 67 Thence the walk is continued by the Bath, wherethe bathers in picturesque costumes are cheerfullyplunging into the sea or dancing in the surf; bythe Blue Streaks, veins of trap, some a few inches,others several feet through, which cross the graniteCape from north to south; by Chapins Rock and. CHAPIN S GULLY. Gully, the former at low tide half in the water, the latter a great notch cut into the shore of solid granite where it is highest and boldest; by Ocean Bluff, the outermost footing of Andrews Point, the farthest Cape Ann projection toward England; thence around Hooj) Pole Cove to the Old Cedar; and so by Cedar Avenue, Phillips Avenue, and Ocean Avenue — where the Salvages are seen as a brooch on the bosom of the sea — back to the place of setting out. At the going down of the sun many walk the3* 58 PIGEON COVE AND VICENITY. little distance on the old road of the village to Sun-set Rock in the Babson pasture. Here the specta-cle of the setting sun, and of the colors that sloAvlyfade while the evenings shades are falling, is themore than reward for strolhng a few rods. Re-turning, Strawberry Hiil is climbed. Here Straits-mouth and Thatchers lights on the right, andIps^vich and Newbur^-port lights on the left, arealmost equally distinctly s
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