The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-08-17

casion, they are at perfect libert 8 Ike
Oliver Twist (or was it Nicholas Nicl by)
and the treacle and sulphur, to Task for
more, and the cry is still they come. :"
One Is not supposed to overdo his part of
the bake if his pile of clam-shells before
him shall conceal his vis-a-uis; for after
that there must yet come the noblest Ro-
man of them all, the red and reeking lob
ster, and the hot and luscious roasting
ear with newly acquired and highly
improved flavor, done to turn la mode
the sea-weed. My tame and lame de-
scription ! must beg my worthy friend,
DR.. n. Coleman. of your city, to supple
ment for me. His genius and taste in
descriptive narrative, if you can induce
him to tell you of has experience with a
clam-bake, will finish out my skeletony
account, and, with laughter holding both
your sides, will shake up your liver, stir
up your digestion, lay fat on your bones,
and contribute some days to your earthly
pilgrimage, and, what is better, teach you
what a clam bake is and what are it's
possibilities. Oh, the clam-bakel Long
may it wave Not for its toothsome
alone. but as a traditional memorial of
New England's pleasant customs. Were
1T to pass away, her most characteristic
landmark would be gone, and some un-
born poet might sing of her, as sung of
Troy, "- ITo5 fatit" So beautifully rem
dered by Lord Byron:
II stood upon Achilles tomb,
And heard Troy doubted. Time will doubt
of Rome"
Gay Head.
After having done" Katama and the
am-bake, we next "did Cav Head
This is peninsula, called by the aborig-
ines Aquinnah, on which is a lighthouse
said to be one of the finest in the country,
80 feet high on cliff l3O feet high, 1,O0S
pieces of the purest glass of different col
ors giving light for miles to the $4,000
vessels which annually pass this lig ght
But 1T is to the geologist that Gay Head
is particularly interesting. Your Mr.. S.
would go daft over it's many wonderfully
strange and interesting features. DR.
Hitchcock says, "There is not a more in.
teresting spot to the geologist-a most
picturesque object of scenery" Here are
all sorts OF fossils, from the petrifed qua
haug, as big as your thumb-naiI, to the
skeletons of monsters that might have
swallowed the whale that swallowed Jo-
nah. This cliff, said to be much alike the
Dover cliffs, of $50 feet, is as plainly and
distinctly marked as a ribbon by strata
OF different colored clays, white, red, vel
low, blue, black, green and brown, giving
Gay Head fantastic and singular aspect
These variegated strata, supposed from
their dip to be 1000 feet in thickness
give the place its English name, Gay
Head, for on approaching it it does pre-
sent gay aspect. Near by is striking
glen. bowl shaped, 100 feet dip and 200
feet in circumference, enjoying the soub-
riquet Devils Den, from the Indian ira
dition that his satanic majesty, yclept by
them Maushope, once honored it by dig
nifying it as his home. Maushope must
have been gigantic in proportions as it is
said Nantucket Island was made by em.
tying the ashes of one pipeful of tobacco
In the ocean, and various lakes are his
footprints, besides many other evidences
OF his Titanic power too numerous to
mentlon. w. B. F.