The Pine-tree coast . EARLY MORNING THE NUBBLE, YORK BEACH. of the tide at all, as the raging waters were kept heaped up on the shores for solong as the gale lasted. The present century is not likely to match such atempest as that. Back of this sea-wall a straggling collection of small hotels and cottages,shops and pavilions stand singly and in groups as the cape is approached. Backof these extends an undrained tract of swamp steaming under the hot noondaysun. Cape Neddock is a long tongue of land on which nothing grows but coarse,wiry grasses, — a succession of rocky knobs and deep spongy hol
The Pine-tree coast . EARLY MORNING THE NUBBLE, YORK BEACH. of the tide at all, as the raging waters were kept heaped up on the shores for solong as the gale lasted. The present century is not likely to match such atempest as that. Back of this sea-wall a straggling collection of small hotels and cottages,shops and pavilions stand singly and in groups as the cape is approached. Backof these extends an undrained tract of swamp steaming under the hot noondaysun. Cape Neddock is a long tongue of land on which nothing grows but coarse,wiry grasses, — a succession of rocky knobs and deep spongy hollows, — thrustoff from the main shore into the sea, which the heated rocks lap with water lying between this cape and Eastern Point goes by the name of LongSands Bay. By following a cart-track for a quarter of an hour one comes to the canal,a stones throw across, dividing the cape from the Nubble Bock. On the topof this bare crag the lighthouse-keepers dwelling and fog-signal stand out bold. 31 UHEB OX TIIK COAST. 0G1 NQ1 n. BALD HEAD, AND I HAT SHORE. in
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