The Pine-tree coast . ttle reflection, feeling, perhaps, that he had spoken his mind toofreely, he asked me to look over his place with him, — told me the age of thehouse, what it would cost to get lumber, who planted the willows, how henscould be raised for nothing at all^ pointed out the boundaries, and mentionedthe aggregate of hCs-acres of stones and sand; all of Avhich I listened to as amatter of coufse,though I thoughthim grown remark-ably communica-tive all at I had takena few steps to leavehim, he suddenlycalled out afterme, I wish someone would comealong and offer nu^twenty
The Pine-tree coast . ttle reflection, feeling, perhaps, that he had spoken his mind toofreely, he asked me to look over his place with him, — told me the age of thehouse, what it would cost to get lumber, who planted the willows, how henscould be raised for nothing at all^ pointed out the boundaries, and mentionedthe aggregate of hCs-acres of stones and sand; all of Avhich I listened to as amatter of coufse,though I thoughthim grown remark-ably communica-tive all at I had takena few steps to leavehim, he suddenlycalled out afterme, I wish someone would comealong and offer nu^twenty thousanddollars for myplace ; see ? Theman had taken mefor a land-broker or a s[)eeulatormad, too ? The deep nook at the head of which is the Short Sands gives one the strangeidea of a large mouthfvd bitten out of the coast. It is by far the safest bathingbeach I have ever seen, it being as flat as a floor, very broad, free from stones,well sheltered at its sides, and shelving off so gently from high-water mark that. UNION BLUFF, VOKK. Shade of John Law ! have these peo])le gone (]^ THE PINE-TREE COAST. there is little danger of getting beyond ones depth. There is no undertow atall. The temperature here is something anomalous, for with the mercury regis-tering 92° when I left Portsmouth, I found it fallen to 78° on the beach at thehour of noon. At about a hundred paces above the present high-water maik, and stretching(piite acioss the head of the beach, one sees a high, grassy bank on which one ortwo hotels iive advantageously located. It is all that prevents the great tides,that always come with great storms, from forcing their wa}^ across the head ofthe beach, and inundating the lowlands behind it. This natural embankmenthas all the appearance of an artificial levee, for Avhich, indeed, it is an excellentsubstitute; only, in point of fact, the winds and waves have done the work of athousand laborers in throwing it up where we now see it, though some omniscientjournalists
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