New-York tribune., 1872-09-16
MASSACHUSETTS, BEACHES.
THE PICTURES OF ESSEX.

SALISBURY BEACH, MASS, aug 81 A1o
county. in Massachusetts,, celebrated IN old times
ns the seat Of the Essex Junto, as 'he no"ie
,n prcsent and past times Of so large por-
tien of our most famed men and women ana
conspcuous Just now constituting the congress DIS
tret represented by Butler has never had justice
done to It yet as place Of beaches But IN point oi %
there "a no equal stretch OF seabeach along our coast
which Is At and habtable resort for bathers ana mas d"
the same time any sorled interest
taking Nahant with its soft Indian name, as one end
Of the stretch and Salisbury Beach as the other
safe TO saw that there Is nothrg like IL IN America De
ginning at the place. as It does IN seaoeaten Guns
ending Al the other in long lines Of low and level
ends Nahapt IS as almost everybody knows, bold
promontory connected with the mainland by riuEes VI
sand and stone thrown up by tho ocean, above "nch H
extreme high point rises something more than
has beach hard as a floor for a mile and man, ana
ne driveway once destroyed by the great storms has
been rebuilt there at considerable expense; ana now
where once the saugus Sycamore led his people III
the games where they shot, ana ran, ana eapeu ior
rizes of peltry and wampum vered and shining equi-
pages glide along in gay procession OF pleasure IL
was perhaps the first OF all beaches chosen Tor
pleasurng the Secretary of State Of Massachusetts I'M
der Sir Edmund Andres having petoned for 1t In order
20 make there his Summer residence In 1888 IL was not
however very decided resort tn some hfy years ago.
when one or two others having already led the way MI
Tudor the author Of our great trade built there and
was speedily followed by many gentlemen Of wealth ana
distinction There Prescott the historian spent the
Summer season. and there LougteOw, aud ASassiz and
Others have seaside The literary side OF society
has always been represented there and such points OF
interest as the shag Rocks and Hormans Woe have not
gone unsung The cliffs here eaten by the waves IN
all manner fantastic assures, and there are rocks IKE
that Of the Swallows Cave where the surges have MADE
their way completely through some four or hve rous 50
tide one pass the one side to the
sea on the other and where clouds ofswaows ne"
In and ont fearing the assaults the less than the
invasion OF man, since they have now departed;
and there are the famous Pulpit, and Castle,
and Egg Rocks, and the spouting Horn IL
was from one Of these rocks, probably that the great
seaserpen was first discovered by some enthusiastic
believer in the old scandinavian snake who surrounds
the connentsi in his coils while looking the long I'M
dulating line in which a school Of porpOises swims.
Over the beaches and the the chorus Of the
Bells of Lynn, about which some Of our pleasantest
verses have been sung-for where Nahant stops Lynn
beips city With street Of elegant residences close
unor the ocean, and crowned 10 the distance with High
Rock at whose base NIol Pitcher once practced her
Black Art and far from which there are sad
traditions buried treasure with pirates walled INSIDE
v sudden avalanche and where under spiritual direc
ton lately searcher hidden gold spent years and
labor that would have harvested in the end larger
treasure than that sought From all these hills In the
background Of the Lynn beaches, delightful prospects
ncnthe spires Of cities on either hand and far off to
the wavewashed horizon the immense field OF the Day
with It's lonely islands and the outlines OF Cape COD IN
the bazy southern sky
Beyond the long Lynn beaches Swampseoh comes the
old place where the tribes loved to resort Tor
their great clam feass-or she'll dinners they are
called pow-and where there IS bay which, If there
were smoking volcano beside It TO contrast fiery tur-
buence with the calm waters, should declare to-De
one those bays which every ono pronounces as beau
ful as the Bay Naples ITSELF and where the Atlantic
blows and beats open reach from shore TO shore OF
Europe and America Hero there three beaches Of
varying length, and headlands like Black Wil's Rock
utting out handsomely into the The shore lined
with villas wealth has almost turned poverty out OF
the place. for swampscott has become what Nahant
used TO be before the great hotel there was burned
down. but there those who think would have dis
tinction enough in being dwelngplace OF wendell
Phillips. If no one else at all lived there. Hurrying
through the wtchrdlen town OF Salem, where we
greve TO say they still show the witches pins, but
geve that the pins are an mPosture being
Of later manufacture than pins OF the witch period,
and where they proud OF their old disgrace as 10
sal Of their newspapers to-day The Wizard we come
put upon the Marbehead rocks. which carry four miles
out 10 sea one OF picturesque towns in the world,
made up lanes and queer, quaint houses with
dooryards on fat rocks, whose fences perhaps
another house arises with another dOOryard OF rock on
a narrow. crooked lane above all rocks and moss and
bright blue sea-vews between, with not enough
as whteheld said, for q graveyard-a strange little
fishing gburgh that speaks with dialect Of its own that
farred and feathered Floyd that hates the next
OF saem that every now and then bursts out In
blaze patriotism, and that hundred years ago built
church for all those whose opinions dHered from tne
opinions OF their neghbors" 1t is haunt Of romance,
tOO all these fishing towns are and the poets have
found it out; here is placed Lucy Larcom's weloved
ballad Of Hannah Binding Shoes" while
Round the rocks of Marblehead.
Outward bound, schooner sped;
and just beyond is the region of the companionpece'
when not out Of sound of Beverly bells, the schooner
sank, and
Never was known in the still old town
Nobody guessed how The fisherman brown, H.
With the look of despair that was half iroWn'
Faced his fate in the furious night
Faced the mad bilOws with hunger whlte
Just within hail of the beacon-fght
That shOne on aWOman sweet ana trim,
Waiting for him."
From beautiful Beverly beaches to Gloucester the
beach is almost unbrOken, though varied with rock,
shngle ribbed and loose sand always the accessible
sea and always peoped with rich and splendid places
At Manchester half way between, the makes in with
single roller and breaks fine richly crags.
Here Dr. Bartol and Mr. James Fields usually spend
partof their Summers and here resortsuch bevy Of
players as the Chanfraus Procors Gilberts and Mrs.
Bowers. Manchester has Of thosewonders of the
world-of which there are but two in all the |
world and those ncosed far up In mountains the |
strand Of ancient Ongdried seas-a Singing Beach. The
Singing Beach Of Manchester is OF simpleloOking light
sand enough but to singular conformation
Of the atoms they against each other
beneath the foot with musical vibration that
when glass is struck by silver Rosy children playing
on this beach sunshine with white hound scratch
ing 10 nd the singing underneath his feet the
rusty cliffs the blue and snowy sails make here,
we lately saw them, picture for Blrket Foster.
From hence, forsakng the sands an hour or two one
drives through forest Of stately pines and hemlocks
lawns with statues and and all villa-ike adorn
mept OF the grounds and there on the sea, views OF