. In brightest summer land . known the place and itsattractions for nobody knows how long before the Pilgrims found it,Chatham occupies the elbow of the bended arm that this cape sofairly represents, and is indeed beautiful for situation. Should weexperience a northeaster in this locality, Uncle Gyp, you would cer-tainly find the place no mean rival of the Cohasset shores; and, in thematters of rolling surf and far-extended lines of mighty waves, youwould possibly conclude that here is the superior of anything of thekind to be found on the coast. The broad Atlantic rolls and roarsupon the bars
. In brightest summer land . known the place and itsattractions for nobody knows how long before the Pilgrims found it,Chatham occupies the elbow of the bended arm that this cape sofairly represents, and is indeed beautiful for situation. Should weexperience a northeaster in this locality, Uncle Gyp, you would cer-tainly find the place no mean rival of the Cohasset shores; and, in thematters of rolling surf and far-extended lines of mighty waves, youwould possibly conclude that here is the superior of anything of thekind to be found on the coast. The broad Atlantic rolls and roarsupon the bars and shores of Chatham; and the impetus of its waves isgathered hundreds, sometimes thousands, of miles away, over towardsthe other continent. The trip by train across-Cape occupied but little time, and was, to 6o say the truth, interestmg chiefly through the illustrations it furnishedof what the winds of heaven, blowing for all time, can do with sand,found originally in volumes unmeasured and unstinted, and provided ^■;^. by Dame Nature in the early days apparently for no other purposethan for the breezes to exercise themselves upon. The short succes-sions of hill and plain, of the composition just above indicated, but ofgreenest verdure and most inviting situations, and the sparse groves 6i and clumps of stunted wood-growths of the section, were soon passed,and the party found itself sauntering through the main street of Chat-ham town, a white gleaming light-tower at its far end irresistiblyattracting their roving fancies. Some time before this object was reached, our trampers emergedupon a high-lifted plateau, or cliff formation, overlooking the con-tracted harbor, and sand-spits and islands, and from which glimpses,more or less extended, were obtained of Old Ocean. Arrived in the neighborhood of the lighthouse, they advanced tothe edge of the plateau, leaving buildings and all artificial obstruc-tions to the outward view behind, and stood for a time silent andabsorbed in
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