. Here and there in New England and Canada . years. Looking across one day from the dirts ofNahant to the gray houses of Marl)lehead, the great evangelist jubi-lantly cried out: There I found a jewel. Of all the smaller harbors on the coast, this is the favorite haven ofyachtsmen, and on the blue sea outside are the best courses for the last few years these waters have been visited by the bestyachts in the world. Volunteer, Mayfloioer, Puritan, Priscilla, Genesta,Galatea, lying at anchor in the snug little harbor for days, and thenspreading to the breeze vast clouds of snowy canvas,


. Here and there in New England and Canada . years. Looking across one day from the dirts ofNahant to the gray houses of Marl)lehead, the great evangelist jubi-lantly cried out: There I found a jewel. Of all the smaller harbors on the coast, this is the favorite haven ofyachtsmen, and on the blue sea outside are the best courses for the last few years these waters have been visited by the bestyachts in the world. Volunteer, Mayfloioer, Puritan, Priscilla, Genesta,Galatea, lying at anchor in the snug little harbor for days, and thenspreading to the breeze vast clouds of snowy canvas, and stretching to. rORT SETVALL, MARBLEHEAD. seaward until they sink below the distant horizon. Three large yacht-clubs have theii houses on this harbor,—the Eastern, the Corinthian,and the Baj^-View (the latter being on Goodwins Head). On the east end of the Marblehead peninsula, at Peachs Point,Benjamin W. Crowninshield has established a village of summer-cot-tages, with pleasant grounds. Farther around, at Naugus Head, arethe remains of a fortress, built during the Civil War, and overlookingSalem Harl)or. A little over a mile outside of Marblehead Light is Lowell Island,with its great building, designed and for some years used as a summer-hotel, having been erected by the Lowell Railroad to draw summer-travel over their route. It was latterly purchased by Frederick H. 31 Riudge, of California (formerly of Cambridge), and endowed as a sani-tarium for convalescent children of poor families, under the care ofEpiscopalian sisters. Marblehead Neck, the fashiona1)le summer-resort and the head(iuar-ters o


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