The Baltimore County union., 1872-08-17
Letter from the Sen-Shore.

SEASIDE, Aug. 18th, 1872.
Dear Union Lynn, city of strikes and Shoes
lies abont ten miles north of Boston, at the head
of what we call tide-harbor On its water side
it touches series OF beautiful beaches, which
run in graceful curves all along to Cape Ann. 1t
is connected with Nahant by two beaches, a
longer and shorter, and Nahant is to Boston
what Newport is to the rest of the world. Swamp
scott lies mile or so from Lynn, and opposite
Nahant.
You leave the station, and after drive along
the smoothest of city streets, you strike what
would in Baltimore be dignifed as an aUsnue, but
here they are content to call ii street. This is
Ocean street. and it is the Lynn part of the fash
ionable drive, which has for points of departure
Nahant on the one end and Marblehead for the
other Ocean street runs parallel 10 the beach
less than an eighth of a mile from it, aud on the
ocean side are the summer residences of many of
the Boston people. The location is beautiful;
and the advantage that thirty four trains day
connect it with the metropolis
Passing over about two-thirds OF this street.
you will come, on your right, to low, snug,
honeisb looking vine covered wooden house, in
neutral TINT standing some hundred feet from the
street, its carriage way aud yard embowered in
elms and NAPLES. 1t has very winning look
even among its more stately neighbors. II gets
all eyes and all praises of the passers. Its grass
is green and well cut, its carriage way neatly
kept and trimmed, the croquet ground near the
gate and beneath the trees is tempting, and in
that chair, under the vine-clad porch you will
possibly see the somewhat rubicund vsage and
stalwart proportions of--we as the phrase is
"your correspondent"
Enter and welcome. Turn round aud look. -
My neighbor has a beautiful grove, aud as we
have no fences between forget in my enjoyment
of il that it is not mine The road you have
come by is "the drive" aud from FIVE O'Clock to
eight of every afternoon carriages OF every dis
crption, pony wagons and all sorts OF lurn-outs
go by, and you exchange salutations with friends
and acquaintance as you sit. Across the road is
the stable and in it the old family mare, precious
and DEAR and when we feel like it we join the
drivers or stretch away for some ueighboring
town.
That will do for the trout OF the house. Beau
tful as it is and satisfactory as il would be un-
der ordinary circumstances it is only small
part of the day that we give to it. Turn round
again and cone in. Opening out OF the hall is
the parlor and opening out OF the parlor by that
long window is don't wonder that you start
What was il Burke said of the French Queen
for some there never fell on mortal sight so fair
vision, n,-something like that. You do not notice
the broad deep piazza with its exquisite drapery
of vines, but you only feel as if you were step
ping right into the Ocean. Advance a step or
two, aud you see that between you and it lies a
broad yelvety lawn Of three or four acres, slopng
gradually to the water which is some three hum
dred feet away, which is cut every ten days. You
do not see it but the lawn Is tevraced, and be-