. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . had not so long been an Isles ofShoals man without learning what would be thechance for life in the stress and strait so powerfullybrought home to him, promptly answered, Histeforsil and jib, and scud for Squam, sir. The moon rises, and the multitudinous wavesturn to silver before her luminous disk; and theheadland, toward which the yacht advances uner-ringly, lifts itself more and more above the sea,presenting its line of points and coves to the impar-tial ray spreading over sea and land from theearths serene and constant satellite. At midnight,her precious freigh
. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . had not so long been an Isles ofShoals man without learning what would be thechance for life in the stress and strait so powerfullybrought home to him, promptly answered, Histeforsil and jib, and scud for Squam, sir. The moon rises, and the multitudinous wavesturn to silver before her luminous disk; and theheadland, toward which the yacht advances uner-ringly, lifts itself more and more above the sea,presenting its line of points and coves to the impar-tial ray spreading over sea and land from theearths serene and constant satellite. At midnight,her precious freight being fanned by cool breezes,and cheered by the welcome of waves tapping thewharves and the hulls of sloops and schooners inthe harbor, the stanch little craft arrives at herbuoy, there to lie through the night in voyagers, too, thankful for the pleasures ofthe day without alloy, are soon in their places ofrest. All good is from above. 114 PIGEON COVE AND VICINITY. THE SAIL TO STRAITSMOUTH AND THATCHERS THATCHER ISLAND LIGHTS. The distance to Straitsmoiith Island being buttliree miles, and, after doubling Straitsmouth, toThatchers Island but two miles more, the wholecourse is under the eye of the village. Glidingout of the harl)or, the yacht careens to the windpressing her sails, and then onward shoots over thewaves toward Straitsmouth lighthouse, as an arrowgoes to its mark. The swift sailing is few rods from the landing place in the Gut thesails are lowered and the anchor dropped. Thenthe shore is reached in a dory; and the lighthouseat the other and outer end of the island, by a thirdof a mile walk. Tlie view from tlie lantern, andthe raml)le from point to point, though mainly notdiiTering from views and rambles on the l)are headsand bluffs of the Cape across the narrow channel,are yet curious and strange in a degree, for beingconnected with an insulated spot. The island isso small that on any part of it, and which ever waythe observer t
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