. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . e, the wall which received the brunt ofthe storm gave way and fell, and the vessels inthe harbor were destroyed. A higher, firmer, andmore extended barrier now occupies the place ofthe one demolished, and one would not suppose thesea would ever rise to such a pitch in wrath as tomake this great work of thirty years in building,and still in building, a ruin. But some idea ofthe force of the sea in the time of wind and tem-pest may be got, by visiting at the end of AndrewsPoint an immense block of granite, of a hundredand fifty tons weight, which, in the disastrous d
. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . e, the wall which received the brunt ofthe storm gave way and fell, and the vessels inthe harbor were destroyed. A higher, firmer, andmore extended barrier now occupies the place ofthe one demolished, and one would not suppose thesea would ever rise to such a pitch in wrath as tomake this great work of thirty years in building,and still in building, a ruin. But some idea ofthe force of the sea in the time of wind and tem-pest may be got, by visiting at the end of AndrewsPoint an immense block of granite, of a hundredand fifty tons weight, which, in the disastrous dayfor the harbor, was wrenched from its solid bed,and whirled over twenty yards to the spot whereit lies. The huge block would seem more ex-posed in its new place than where it had beenpacked thousands and thousands of years, but thereit rests during the toughest gales, warding like agiant the blows of the waves, or, unaffected, tak-ing all their poundings till their rage is spent. 30 PIGEON COVE AND VICLMTY. SHORE FROM THE VILLAGE AND ANDREWS POINT. The town of Rockport to day, the town of twovillages, which are almost united by a chain ofhabitations stretching from one to the other ona single road, as seen from vessels crossing SandyBay, or from the Salvages, three miles from shore,or from the steamers and other craft, large andsmall, passing the outermost points of the Cape, isone of the prettiest of the sea-board towns. Sevenchurches and chapels, representing different formsof Christian belief; the town-house, ample andconvenient for the purposes of the building ; theschool-houses, erected and used to answer the endsof education ; the extensive steam cotton-mill, built SHOllE FROM SEA. 31 of granite, and made imposing with two massivetowers ; the isinglass and glue factories ; the hide[actory ; the granite quarries on the woody middleand northern background, advertising themselvesto the eye through scores of lofty derricks, and tothe ear through powder-blasts loud as
Size: 1983px × 1260px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookidpigeoncovevicini00inleon
