The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . ford to Cape Cod, in summer time. The summer visitation to Marthas Vineyardis to every section of its habited portions, butohiefly, as a matter of course, to Cottage City,where every provision has been made for thereception of the sojourner, or the guest of aday or night, and for the employment and en-joyment of all comers, no matter what theircondition or how long or short their Cottage City as a headquarters, all othersections of the island are easily and pleasantlyreached; so that this place is a centre of de-lights and expe
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . ford to Cape Cod, in summer time. The summer visitation to Marthas Vineyardis to every section of its habited portions, butohiefly, as a matter of course, to Cottage City,where every provision has been made for thereception of the sojourner, or the guest of aday or night, and for the employment and en-joyment of all comers, no matter what theircondition or how long or short their Cottage City as a headquarters, all othersections of the island are easily and pleasantlyreached; so that this place is a centre of de-lights and experiences such as few resorts canpresent, even in favored New England. The first establishment of Marthas Vineyardas a summering place took place far withiothe present century, and an humble, unpreten-tious camp-meeting was the medium throughwhich the influences began to work that haveresulted in Cottage City and its summer lifeand attributes. Previous to the advent of this camp-meetingthe point of the island now occupied by Cottage Marthas vineyard. 139. Gay Head Transportation Facilities. City was a wilderness waste. A dwarfed butsturdy tree growth then gave the name OakBluffs to the locality, a portion of which stillbears that cognomen ; but of dwellings, orclearings, or any of the attributes of individualor community establishment, there were wild grasses waved over the scantilycovered sand plains that constitute the soil ofthe section, and the berry branches and vines,nodded to each other on the slightly inclinedhillside, their annual crops u^ntouched andunnoticed by any harvesters save birds andinsects. Upon the shores there were no 140 MARTHAS VINEYARD. wharves or artificial landing places, and themariner cruising up and down the great high-way opposite, regarded the place as rather tobe shunned than sought, and was glad when,in bad weather, he had passed its cliff coast insafety. But the beauty of the situation, the grandeurof its ocean surroundings and outlooks,
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