The Pine-tree coast . NORTH PIER AND BEACH. U4 THE PINE-TREE COAST. Not long ago my gossip Dixey, — rest his soul! — who knew every kernel ofsand on the coast, was telling me about the great gale of 1851 — the same onewhich swept away Miuots lighthouse as if it had been a confectioners pagodaon a show-cake, instead of a tower of iron, with iron columns deeply imbeddedin solid rock. Man! said old Dixey to me, throwing off his habitual apathyat the bare recollection of that fearful night, • man alive! you couldnt seeneither pier for three mortal hours, — yes, and more too. Breaker arter breaker.
The Pine-tree coast . NORTH PIER AND BEACH. U4 THE PINE-TREE COAST. Not long ago my gossip Dixey, — rest his soul! — who knew every kernel ofsand on the coast, was telling me about the great gale of 1851 — the same onewhich swept away Miuots lighthouse as if it had been a confectioners pagodaon a show-cake, instead of a tower of iron, with iron columns deeply imbeddedin solid rock. Man! said old Dixey to me, throwing off his habitual apathyat the bare recollection of that fearful night, • man alive! you couldnt seeneither pier for three mortal hours, — yes, and more too. Breaker arter breaker. RETIRED *TEKMAN. drove right over em, full chisel; card away three of them biggest graniteblocks you see on the top tier, weighing seven ton apiece, and hove em interthe channel sames a boy would a brickbat. There they be now. Snappedcopper bolts [the blocks of stone are strongly bolted together] tew inches thick,like that, the old man finished, suiting the action to the word, by breakingin two a chip he held in his hand, to show me how easily the thing was done. For years the occurrence was talked about as one that might not happenagain in a lifetime ; but in tlu^ winter of 1888-89. I myself saw the seas break AT KENNEBUNKPORT. 95 over both piers from end to end during a violent blow from the northeast, andthis time a wide breach was made in the solid granite wall of the north pier,through which cataracts of water rush at every tide, thus endangering the safetyof the whole structure/ This river, which, when full, is charming, and when empty, only a crookedditch, is the aquatic
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