The Pine-tree coast . olony is reached in going rather less than a mile. Here is alsothe point where the old shore road crossed this river on its winding way to theeastward. The kernel of the settlement which has grown up on this spot was two oi-three fishermens cottages, with a solitary row of balm of Gileads leaning outbefore them over the rivers bank. Here, too, if I err not, was the dwelling-place of Trowbridges (Jld Lobsterman, whose surroundings are thus terselydepicted: — A furlong or more away to the south,On the bar beyond the huge sea-wallsThat keep the channel and guard its
The Pine-tree coast . olony is reached in going rather less than a mile. Here is alsothe point where the old shore road crossed this river on its winding way to theeastward. The kernel of the settlement which has grown up on this spot was two oi-three fishermens cottages, with a solitary row of balm of Gileads leaning outbefore them over the rivers bank. Here, too, if I err not, was the dwelling-place of Trowbridges (Jld Lobsterman, whose surroundings are thus terselydepicted: — A furlong or more away to the south,On the bar beyond the huge sea-wallsThat keep the channel and guard its high, curved billow whitens and falls ;And the ebbing tides through the granite gate, On their wild errands that will not wait,Forever unresting, to and fro. Course with impetuous ebb and flow. It is at least singular that this point should have been the site of theancient ferry established by a colonial order of 1653, abandoned when thebuilding of the bridges higher up suspended it as a travelled way, to be again. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. 92 THE riNE-TREE COAST. restored as a feature of the new life of the phu-e, wliich has thus sliaken handswith the okl across the gulf of time. Generally speaking, when the tide was at its lowest, the river could beforded here; so that the crossing long went by the name of the and by, when the government began the granite piers^ at the rivers mouth,it became necessary to build a \\li;irf here, in order to carry on that work withadvantage, after which the locality took the name of the government then it has always been found a very convenient spot for wind or tidebound vessels to tie up at. Lonely outpost, indeed, when from his wooden castleon yonder baidi, only the ferryman kept solitary watch for unfrecpient pas-sengers ! There is a tradition about an adventure of Stephen Harding, who kept theferry here long ago, that belongs to this locality. Hardings log-house stood on the swell of ground enclosed between Gro
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