The Pine-tree coast . gain before us, but it is a sea without a sail, as even the fishermenavoid these shallow waters, which a moderate breeze soon tumbles about inshort, choppy waves, and a gale sets in the wildest commotion. The beachitself is hard, fine-grained sand, with so gentle a slope to the water that bathingshould be quite safe. Timber Island now lies just opposite us. It was on a ledge at the eastern-most point of this island that the good ship Governor Rohic one hundred andthirty-five days from Ja[)an, struck one thick March morning, and was broughtup all standing, as sailors say.
The Pine-tree coast . gain before us, but it is a sea without a sail, as even the fishermenavoid these shallow waters, which a moderate breeze soon tumbles about inshort, choppy waves, and a gale sets in the wildest commotion. The beachitself is hard, fine-grained sand, with so gentle a slope to the water that bathingshould be quite safe. Timber Island now lies just opposite us. It was on a ledge at the eastern-most point of this island that the good ship Governor Rohic one hundred andthirty-five days from Ja[)an, struck one thick March morning, and was broughtup all standing, as sailors say. It had been blowing and raining all theprevious day and night, —in fact, it was downright dirty weather, —but not fora moment would an old salt have condescended to call it a gale, or haveclewed up anything to speak of, on account of it. When the captain turned in,he supposed the ship to be twenty miles from the nearest land ! Thousandsvisited the scene of the disaster, some secretly hoi)ing the vessel would go to. W^^^^^^S^^^mii GATE, POOL ROAT). BEDDEFORD POOL. 113 pieces; some, like ourselves, out of curiosity to see a full-rigged ship, with every-thing as sound in appearance alow and aloft as when she first went to sea,standing up on the reef as straight as a monument. After many trials thevessel was pulled off, mucli to the disappointment of the land-sharks alongshore, who look upon a wreck as their peculiar prey. A strange sort of ethics,truly ! If a man should be caught in the act of robbing a wrecked railway train,he would deserve to be lynched on the spot, and public sentiment would dou])t-less justify the saving of time and trouble to the state. But if some iinluckyship meets a like fate, under conditions involving peril, hardship, and evenlife itself, the unwritten code of the shore delivers her up to be plundered bythe first comers. That code needs revising. It is only half a mile or so more to the summer colony at Fortunes Rocks,though quite two miles by the us
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