. Here and there in New England and Canada . 52 new high-school; the Sawyer Free Library, with its snua: reading-rooms ; tlie great Catholic Church of St. Anne, a favorite shrine of thePortuguese and provincial fishermen; the crowded flsli-flakes on FortPoint; and the little Ijeacli near the Pavilion Hotel, looking out toStage Rocks and Ten-Pound Island. The gallant Champlain, with his company of French mariners, wasthe first man of white skin to explore the coast hereaway, somewhereabout the year ; and he gave to Gloucester Harbor the pleasanttitle of Le Beau Port. Capt. John Smith visit
. Here and there in New England and Canada . 52 new high-school; the Sawyer Free Library, with its snua: reading-rooms ; tlie great Catholic Church of St. Anne, a favorite shrine of thePortuguese and provincial fishermen; the crowded flsli-flakes on FortPoint; and the little Ijeacli near the Pavilion Hotel, looking out toStage Rocks and Ten-Pound Island. The gallant Champlain, with his company of French mariners, wasthe first man of white skin to explore the coast hereaway, somewhereabout the year ; and he gave to Gloucester Harbor the pleasanttitle of Le Beau Port. Capt. John Smith visited the cape in 1G14, andhe gave it the name of Tragabigzanda, in honor of a fair Turkish prin-. ^_ ^^=- ^^ OLD WHARVES AT GLOUCESTER. cess who liad befriended liim many years before while a captive to theMoslems in Constantinople. But Prince Charles of England thoughtit worth}- of a more Christian title, and gave it the name of his royalmother, Anne of Denmark, the wife of James I., and the first queenof Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Classic writers tell us that the inventor of salt-fish was honored bya statue in the Athenian market-place, as a l)enefactor of Greece. When the Pilgrims importuned King James for a colonial patent,he asked them what profits might arise from the projected settlement. Fishing, said one. To whom the majesty of England made answer: 53 So God have my soul, tis an honest trade; twas the Apostles oanticalling. By the extension of these wonderful fisheries, Gloucester has becomethe chief port in all the world for this business, and employs upwardsof five thousand men in its fleets. The noble apostrophe of EdmundBurke, uttered in the English Parliamen
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