. Here and there in New England and Canada . head Light is Lowell Island,with its great building, designed and for some years used as a summer-hotel, having been erected by the Lowell Railroad to draw summer-travel over their route. It was latterly purchased by Frederick H. 31 Riudge, of California (formerly of Cambridge), and endowed as a sani-tarium for convalescent children of poor families, under the care ofEpiscopalian sisters. Marblehead Neck, the fashiona1)le summer-resort and the head(iuar-ters of the Eastern Yacht-Clnb, lifts its half-league of rocky hills tothe eastward of the ancien
. Here and there in New England and Canada . head Light is Lowell Island,with its great building, designed and for some years used as a summer-hotel, having been erected by the Lowell Railroad to draw summer-travel over their route. It was latterly purchased by Frederick H. 31 Riudge, of California (formerly of Cambridge), and endowed as a sani-tarium for convalescent children of poor families, under the care ofEpiscopalian sisters. Marblehead Neck, the fashiona1)le summer-resort and the head(iuar-ters of the Eastern Yacht-Clnb, lifts its half-league of rocky hills tothe eastward of the ancient town, across the harbor, and towards theopen sea. Lying thus between the harlior and the ocean, it is all butan island, being joined to tlie mainland onlj^ by the low isthmus ofRiverhead Beach, nearly a mile long. A capital road encircles the en-tire domain, and runs out as far as the light-house on the extremepoint, affording one of the grandest drive-ways on the coast. Theviews include the quaint old town and gray wharves of Marblehead,. DISTANT VIEW OF MARBLEHEAD LIGHT. with Beverly and Manchester, Magnolia and Gloucester, beyond, andacross the Misery and Bakers Islands; while toward the south appearNahant, Egg Rock, Lynn, the outer guards of Boston Harbor, and thenoble Blue Hills of Milton. The peninsula is composed of trap-rock, with strata and bowlders ofporphyry, quartz, and inferior granite. The area is two hundred andsixty acres, a bleak and almost treeless tract, amid which the cottagesstand unrelieved, save by the sapphire background of the sea. The causeway which forms the stem to the great pear-shaped penin-sula was built on a sandy bar, broken through in the Minots-Ledgestorm, when the harbor was wellnigh ruined. In driving across, the 32 roaring of the sea. the beautiful views over tlie waters, and the smellof Icelp aud sea-weed give continual pleasure. The Xanepasheniet. the chief hotel, occupies an admirable situationhigh on the blufl over the sea, and comman
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