. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . he sun brighter. I never can enter the wood by thelittle station without remembering the kind friends, the clever set,who used to sit on the platform here in October, with bundles of can-vas, waiting regretfully for the Boston train. 250 Picturesque in many wajS, and especially about its wharves, yetexpressing a wholly different sentiment, is Gloucester,— a city of25,000 people at the head of a noble harbor, and the foremost flshing-port in the world. W
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . he sun brighter. I never can enter the wood by thelittle station without remembering the kind friends, the clever set,who used to sit on the platform here in October, with bundles of can-vas, waiting regretfully for the Boston train. 250 Picturesque in many wajS, and especially about its wharves, yetexpressing a wholly different sentiment, is Gloucester,— a city of25,000 people at the head of a noble harbor, and the foremost flshing-port in the world. Whatever else it may do or appear to be, Glouces-ter, first and last, is ^sA : cod, halibut, mackerel,— mackerel, halibut,cod,— fresh, salted, dried, and smoked. Her fleets haunt the distant sea-banks, and her men serve in navies and the merchant-marine all roundthe world. If I should begin to tell such stories as you may hear uponher wharves, or on the decks of her beautiful schooners, or withinthe comfortable homes of her innumerable captains, there would be noending. I must just say, therefore, to every and any inlander, that he. OLD WHAKVES AT GLOUCESTER. will never regret a visit to Gloucester, nor find dull the reading ofher annals and the study of her adventurous trade. Beyond Gloucester the railroad climbs over a dreadful stretch ofalmost naked rocks to the odd little seaport of Rockport, whose tinyharbor is one of the most sketchable on all this picturesque is famous for its quarries of granite which are a little outsideof the village, and reached by a branch of the railway. How well-worth seeing these quarries are, to anyone with artistic appreciation,you can judge from the illustrations accompanying a brightly descrip-tive article upon them in Harpers Magazine for March, 1885. 251 A little north of Rockport, beyond the great quarries, is PigeonCove, at the foot of Pigeon hill, whose green slopes are in strilvingcontrast to the other rock-strewn hi
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