. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . judgment of thehumane, ended in results not less noble. Here ending discourse about whales, a fewwords from Rev. Francis Iligginsons Journal,Avritten in 1629, after he had crossed the oceanfrom England to Salem, will not be the brave and enthusiastic minister to hiscijuntrymen at home: Our passage was bothpleasurable and profitable ; for we received instruc-tion and delight in beholding the wonders of theLord in the deep waters, and sometimes seeing the BATHING AND SWIMMING. 135 sea round us appearing with a terrible countenanceand, as it were, full
. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . judgment of thehumane, ended in results not less noble. Here ending discourse about whales, a fewwords from Rev. Francis Iligginsons Journal,Avritten in 1629, after he had crossed the oceanfrom England to Salem, will not be the brave and enthusiastic minister to hiscijuntrymen at home: Our passage was bothpleasurable and profitable ; for we received instruc-tion and delight in beholding the wonders of theLord in the deep waters, and sometimes seeing the BATHING AND SWIMMING. 135 sea round us appearing with a terrible countenanceand, as it were, full of high hills and deep valleys;and sometimes it appeared as a most plain andeven meadow. And ever and anon we saw diverskinds of fishes sporting in the great waters, greatgrampuses and huge whales, going by companiesand puffing up water streams. Those that lovetheir own chimney-corner, and dare not go farbeyond their own towns end, shall never havethe honor to see these wonderful works ofAlmighty God. BATHING AND SALVAGES FROM OCEAN AVENUE. The facilities on the shore of Pigeon Cove forbathing and swimming should not be is but a short walk from the hotels and the vil- 136 PIGEON COVE AND VICINITY. lage homes to the Bath. Here the granite shore isas clean as the pure water of the ocean can washit; and there are hollows and basins in the rocks,and, over a barrier of stones outside of them, asmooth granite floor across which are stretchedstrong ropes made fast at each end to iron boltsdriven into holes drilled deep into a ledge or boul-der. Every incoming tide brings to the granitefloor and to the hollows and basins a new supplyof cool, pure brine for the bathers. Every out-going tide takes away the last Avater dashed overthem by the waves, leaving them clean and tobe wholly supplied again, on the return of theuntainted, wholesome sea. Ascending from thebathing floor and basins to the clothing rooms ofthe bath-house, at the brink of the high groundabove t
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