The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . eyard stands inthe forefront among summer resorts with rela-tion to these employments. The bathingbeaches of Cottage City are of the same classwith those of Newport, Narragansett Pier, CapeMay, and all the well-known establishments ofthis kind known up and down the Atlanticcoast. Great pains and expense have been in-curred here to utilize fully this grand naturalprovision. As to the visiting sailing craft,there is not a yacht in the North Atlanticwaters that does not know how pleasant anddesirable a thing it is to make a landfall at theV
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . eyard stands inthe forefront among summer resorts with rela-tion to these employments. The bathingbeaches of Cottage City are of the same classwith those of Newport, Narragansett Pier, CapeMay, and all the well-known establishments ofthis kind known up and down the Atlanticcoast. Great pains and expense have been in-curred here to utilize fully this grand naturalprovision. As to the visiting sailing craft,there is not a yacht in the North Atlanticwaters that does not know how pleasant anddesirable a thing it is to make a landfall at theVineyard, nor hardly a yachtsman who doesnot so arrange his cruising as to ensure anoccasional run ashore at Cottage City. InAugust, usually, of each year occurs in theVineyard waters a grand regatta of the NewYork Yacht Club—an event that interests farand wide. This island may be called the central pointaround which are grouped great numbers ofthe finest fishing grounds known to oceanwaters. As for bluefishing—that combination MARTHAS VINEYARD. 147. Vamjj Grounds, Trinity Church. of the two sports, fishing and sailing—it isfair to say that it exists in perfection off theVineyard shores. The very best bluefishgrounds off Massachusetts, and perhaps thebest to be found anywhere, are along the westside of Muskegat Channel, near the shore lyingsouth from Edgartown. Muskegat Island liesabout seven miles from the Vineyard shores,and through the interval between this islandand the Vineyard runs the channel that givesname to the locality, the main channel beingclose along the Vineyard coast. These inter-nal waters and all the neighborhoods of Mus-kegat are filled with shoals, **grounds and 148 MARTHAS VINEYARD. *rips—all of them good and available blue-fish haunts. The area covered by the surfacesindicated in the foregoing is from four to fivemiles in length, by two miles in breadth. Cape Poge is the easternmost point of Mar-thas Vineyard and the nearest land to Nan-tucket, and
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