. The old colony, or, Pilgrim land : past and present . ebble patches reveal; the singular beauty andprofusion of the myriad manifestations of marine grasses and weeds,— long ribbons, apparent fruit clusters, or matted thickets of vegeta-tion which cling to the rocks as though their roots pierced to the cen-tres, and these animate with marine fishes or animalculse most invitingto note or study; the great rock-masses, bare and iron brown at lowtide, and surf-beaten and grandly invincible when the waters are upand the elements are striving. There is hardly a mile of all thesecoasts that has not
. The old colony, or, Pilgrim land : past and present . ebble patches reveal; the singular beauty andprofusion of the myriad manifestations of marine grasses and weeds,— long ribbons, apparent fruit clusters, or matted thickets of vegeta-tion which cling to the rocks as though their roots pierced to the cen-tres, and these animate with marine fishes or animalculse most invitingto note or study; the great rock-masses, bare and iron brown at lowtide, and surf-beaten and grandly invincible when the waters are upand the elements are striving. There is hardly a mile of all thesecoasts that has not witnessed a shipwreck; and some of these points,where the walks are superlatively attractive and the entertainmentmost lavishly bestowed, have noted scores of terrible marine tragediesduring their association with human existence, and have been thicklystrewn with bodies which have made sad landing upon them, fromill-fated crafts, whose bones, even now, are distributed in the cleftsof the rocks, or lie half-buried in the sands, rotting under the
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