The Pine-tree coast . t, as bare of ornament as a bridge caisson or a Croton fact, as far as looks go, they are as like as two peas in a pod. It was foundnecessary to place them well back from the wraters edge, as the bluff on whichthey stand is broken off abruptly at a distance of fifty or sixty paces from theshore. They are what is called range lights, one being a first-order fixed, theother a flashing light, and very brilliant. The outlook opened to us here, whether of sea or shore, of windy cape ortumbling surf, is uncommonly tine, if only one could get rid of the train ofide
The Pine-tree coast . t, as bare of ornament as a bridge caisson or a Croton fact, as far as looks go, they are as like as two peas in a pod. It was foundnecessary to place them well back from the wraters edge, as the bluff on whichthey stand is broken off abruptly at a distance of fifty or sixty paces from theshore. They are what is called range lights, one being a first-order fixed, theother a flashing light, and very brilliant. The outlook opened to us here, whether of sea or shore, of windy cape ortumbling surf, is uncommonly tine, if only one could get rid of the train ofideas that these roaring reefs on one hand, and the life-saving station on theother, with all its paraphernalia of life-boats and bombs, signals and beacons, soinfallibly suggest. Even in the season of calm seas and serene skies these graylittle cabins by the sea constantly remind us of lurking dangers, and of theheroic but ill-rewarded efforts of the men of that service to rescue their fellow-beings from a watery 141 THE PINE-TREE COAST. All about us the waters are sown with jagged reefs, and the shores closelysurrounded by rugged humps of rock with narrow gullies between, into whichthe sea incessantly plunges in rushing coils and eddies. These dangerous rocksand reefs have an evil repute among sailors. See now how gently the seabreaks on yonder reef! The waves seem actually caressing it. Well, it wasjust there, on that very spot, that I once saw a ship lying a dismal wreck, withthis same treacherous sea flying high over her decks. Yonder white pillar gleaming in the east is Portland Light, three miles away;and in very clear weather Seguin can easily be made out, twenty miles away. Lying as they do at the entrance to the most frequented harbor on the coast,the pointed reefs naturally pick up many vessels. Worst of all the shipwrecksthat have happened here was that of the Allan steamship Bohemian, whichstruck on Trundys reef and became a total loss, strewing the coast with
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