. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . slem chain his limbs around,Wreathed oer with silk that iron with her smiles his hours of fondly to her youthful slaveA dearer gift than freedom gave. Proceeding from his reference to the fair head-land, and to the three isles fronting it, Cap-tain Smith further says: To the north of this (the fair headland) doth enter a great bay, wherewe found some habitations and cornfields. Clearly,in the beginning of this sentence, Ipswich Bay ismeant; but, as to the meaning of the words follow-ing, notliing can be positively said. It may beconsidered pr
. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . slem chain his limbs around,Wreathed oer with silk that iron with her smiles his hours of fondly to her youthful slaveA dearer gift than freedom gave. Proceeding from his reference to the fair head-land, and to the three isles fronting it, Cap-tain Smith further says: To the north of this (the fair headland) doth enter a great bay, wherewe found some habitations and cornfields. Clearly,in the beginning of this sentence, Ipswich Bay ismeant; but, as to the meaning of the words follow-ing, notliing can be positively said. It may beconsidered probable, however, that the habita-tions and cornfields were found somewhere on thenorth side of the Cape. Tools and weapons ofIndian manufacture, lately found on Folly Point,on the northern slope of Pigeon Hill, and nearPigeon Cove, as well as others like them dug inrecent and in former days from the sands of Cof-fins Beach, are silent but admissible witnesseswhich strengthen the jjrobability. ANCIENT TEEES. 15 ANCIENT THE OLD CEDAR. Moreover, let it not be supposed that therewere no fertile, sunny places for corn on the northside of the Cape in the long ago time in were here then giant oaks and lofty pines,which both attested the strength of the soil andshielded the cornfields from Avind and of these majestic trees stood on AndrewsPoint, and were felled and made into keels andribs for ships, within the memory of persons stillliving. A few of these trees stand to-day to tellof the ancient forest grandeur of the fair head-land. A dozen or more of them are in the Bab-son pasture, inside the highway passing HalibutPoint. One old oak near Pigeon Cove Harbor,occupying scant ground between ruts made l)ywheels carrying granite to the l)reakwater, and]Mr. Marchants coal-yard, if it were like Tenny-sons Talking Oak, would no doubt rehearsethe incidents of three hundred years. Still in the 16 PIGEON COVE AND VICINITY. spring-time it puts forth leaves on its
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