. America, picturesque and descriptive. ofthe iron-bound headland are fringed Avith forests,Avhile jagged reefs and rocky islets surround it,against Avhich the sea beats in perpetual surface is strewn with boulders, many of largesize, and beds of the finest white sand are inter-spersed. The Indians called this promontory Win-gaersheek, and Avhen Captain John Smith camealong he named it Cape Tragabizonda, in memoryof a Moslem princess Avho had befriended him whena prisoner in Constantinople, also calling three smallislands off the cape the Three Turks King Charles I. aa^o
. America, picturesque and descriptive. ofthe iron-bound headland are fringed Avith forests,Avhile jagged reefs and rocky islets surround it,against Avhich the sea beats in perpetual surface is strewn with boulders, many of largesize, and beds of the finest white sand are inter-spersed. The Indians called this promontory Win-gaersheek, and Avhen Captain John Smith camealong he named it Cape Tragabizonda, in memoryof a Moslem princess Avho had befriended him whena prisoner in Constantinople, also calling three smallislands off the cape the Three Turks King Charles I. aa^ouUI have none of this, hoAV-ever, and called the headland Cape Ann, after hisroy al mother, and thus it has remained. The haven on the southern side, Gloucester harbor, Avas eailysought as a fishing station, being knoAvn in 1624, andit received its name in 1G42, most of the early set-tlers coming from Gloucester in England. Champlainfound it a safe harbor Avhen in peril, and Avrites of it Blona tbe Sbore, Cape Bnne,(Bloucester, CAPK AXX. 87 as Lc Ikmu Port. In Au-ust. 1S!)L>, tliis faiii-mslishcry i>ort erlrhratcd its two liuiuln-d and witli ^^reat fervor. The prosperity of Gloucester lias come iVom thefisheries, it being the g-rcatcst cod and mackerel portin America, and having the most extensive fleet offishing-bf)ats in tlu^ world, exceeding six hundred,employing over six thousand men. The poj)ulationajjproximates thirty thousand, and it is said theirearnings on the fishery product are over .t-l?<^^^*^^^^^^^annually. The earliest form of the Cape Ann fishing-smack was known as the ^ Chebacco, t\\ o-niasted,cat-rigged, and of ten or twelve tons, made sharp atbotli ends, and getting the name from the first placeof building, Chebacco Parish, in Ipswich, adjoiningthe Cape. From this was developed the popularAmerican build of vessel known as the schooner, thefirst one being launched at Gloucester in 1713. Aftersliding down the launching-way
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