. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ofCape Cod be legitimately pictured as a bended arm ofdefense against the fierce Atlantic, then Cohasset isthe shoulder receiving the merciless waves that roll inabove the reach of that arm. To the mariner of the world-swathing sea, we arenaught but a sign of danger and of death ; for the gleamof Minots Lighthouse, rising out of the dark sea, is awarning most solemn of the treacherous ledges that fringeour shore. These rocks spread like a network to catch the every ledge has crushed with its jagged teeth theribs of so
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ofCape Cod be legitimately pictured as a bended arm ofdefense against the fierce Atlantic, then Cohasset isthe shoulder receiving the merciless waves that roll inabove the reach of that arm. To the mariner of the world-swathing sea, we arenaught but a sign of danger and of death ; for the gleamof Minots Lighthouse, rising out of the dark sea, is awarning most solemn of the treacherous ledges that fringeour shore. These rocks spread like a network to catch the every ledge has crushed with its jagged teeth theribs of some luckless craft. The splinters and remnants HISTORY OF C OH ASSET. of scores of wrecks throughout two centuries and a halfhave strewn these beaches. Many a corpse, far from its native land, has been castup, and has lain, rolled in blankets of seaweed like a mockburial in the sand, until the pitying hands of men havebrought it to a respectable grave. When the northeast hurricane shrieks among the shredsof a shivering ship, Minots Light tells the seaman that. Photo, Miss Annie Hartwell. The Stern and Rock-bound Coast. Cohasset is the one place in this world where he does notwish to go. But the sea, not the shore, is at fault ; for when thewaters are persuaded to be still, and the light of a summersun glows pink and gray and green upon the granite edgeof our grassy groves, there is no sweeter beauty to befound. The denizens of many a baking city have fled tothis summer retreat and have bathed their lungs with itssalt air and ozone. To them the name of Jerusalem Roadis the synonym of a unique shore drive along three or four WHA T AND WHERE. 3 miles of Macadam at the rim of the water, where everyshort turn throws before the eye a new scene of petitebeauty like the surprise of a kaleidoscope. The carriage drives, both sylvan and seaside, are not yetinvaded by the lumbering cars of the trolley witch, andthey invite the luxurious vehicles drawn by well-muscledroadsters to bowl along
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