. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . THE TWINS. ocean, which no artist would wish to , from the Farm to Pigeon Cove is thelast and pleasantest stage of the ride roundthe Cape. Sometimes it is on the old road, tothe grand sea views and to the merry welcome ofhome. Sometimes a detour, near Strawberry Hill,determines the last step homeward shall be overPhillips Avenue, with the unequalled ooean viewon one side, and the varied beauty of oaks andpines, climbing brambles, pasture-lilies, and wildroses on the other. Either way is a fine andcheerful ending of a circuit which, for variousand uniq
. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . THE TWINS. ocean, which no artist would wish to , from the Farm to Pigeon Cove is thelast and pleasantest stage of the ride roundthe Cape. Sometimes it is on the old road, tothe grand sea views and to the merry welcome ofhome. Sometimes a detour, near Strawberry Hill,determines the last step homeward shall be overPhillips Avenue, with the unequalled ooean viewon one side, and the varied beauty of oaks andpines, climbing brambles, pasture-lilies, and wildroses on the other. Either way is a fine andcheerful ending of a circuit which, for variousand unique scenery, and the blending of rural andmarine characteristics, cannot be paralleled. 84 PIGEON COVE AND VICINITY. RIDE TO LITTLE GOOD HARBOR BEACH ANDEASTERN CAPE POND. Not imfreqiiently the ride of the circle isbranched by digressions. One of these is to LittleGood Harbor Beach; and thence, if the tide below, over the Eastern Point road to EasternPoint lightliouse. Epes Sargent says the namec-f tlie beach was given by an Indian, whose col-lection of English words was small. By littlegood he meant had. But the Ix^ach is wide andclean, being exposed to the long lines of charg-ing waves: is good from the same causes tliatmade the ancliorage, in jxriods of rough weather,bad. Tlie Eastern Point road beinjj on hi^hground, it commands at the same time a fine viewof Gloucester and its excellent harbor, and a RIDE TO RAFE S CHASM. 85 splendid prospect of Massachusetts Bay, its vessels,rocks, islands, and portions of its distant SoutliShore. At tlie lighthouse the vision adds otherviews to its new list, taking in Normans Woe,Bakers Island, Lowell Island, the promontor}^ ofMarblehead, and far up the baj, between thenorth shore of this headland and t
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