Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-08-09

"hieO, iitioS thcucClNcS Hlyus w udcu
IN thunder on the sands. A sea fog
was rising, aud could Just discern
away OF on the waters, stately ship
which in the .nisty cloud looked like a
phantom thipg. This ia dangerous
coast, and has coast guard, and life
saving station.
Tales Of sbip-wreck and disasters at
sea are told all along this southern coast
of the Island, for many brave ship has
gone to pieces amidst these breakers
Great South Bay is said to be full OF
thrilling stories. There persisted
Margaret Fuller Assoli, with her hus-
band and child, in sight of her native
| land.
East Hampton and BrIdgehampton,
are pretty villages also on the coast.
East Hampton is celebrated as the
birth place of John Howard Payne,
author of Home Sweet Home" We
drive over the fine, smooth turn Pike,
past snug old-fashioned farm.houses,
with wealth of of cherry trees, here
and there shady lawns with hammocks
linyitingly snug beneath the trees, the
hay fields yielding their fragrance upon
the soft air, yonder a great windmill
flaps its sails, agreeing well with the
old shingled houses, and primitive we'll
sweeps. The mixture of the old and
the new is strangely blended, for up
aud down the turnpike, fitting by the
old. fashioned houses and their old
fashioned surroundings, 60 fine ladies
10 their pony -phaetons, the intensely
modern dog.cart, with their livinec
white gloyed foot-men on the box, and
all the accessories OF fashionable and
luxurious society.
Now we reach Sag Harbor. The pres.
ent terminus, OF the Southern branch
of Long Island r. r. Sag Harbor, the
most beau .iul, most artistic, altogether
most attractive rural town. your cor
respondent has ever walked or driven
over.
Once whaling station that compet-
ed even with New Bedford, and as
we'll Known beyond the seas as Nan
tucket and Salem, Sag Harbor was a
busy, populous place; but the glory
OF her whaling days is long since over,
and there are now in this pretty place
only about twenty-five hundred in-
habitants. But her beauty has not
waned, is rather on the Increase, aud II
whaling ships no longer set sails from,
or return into tie harbor, around Shell
ter Island, the waters of Peconic Bay
are dotted with many sails, and the
staunch little streams may bring
another kind OF Thrift and life into SAG
Harbor. This is the largest village in
Suffolk county, and certainly one OF tie
| handsomest, During the Revolution
ary war, Sag Harbor was the scene oil
some active warfare. The wide streets
shaded by elms, liudens, and cnest'
nuts of magnificent growth, are lln ed
with beautiful tasteful residences. The
fashionable, Eslhelic touches OF color
have reached Sag Harbor in very ele-
CANT degree, and very pretty are the
roomy porches with Their red chars
and seilees, the flowery yards decorat
ed with scarlet gypsey kettles over
flowing with plants and vines, the
whole toned by the soft green sward'
and leafy screen Of the trees. The
older houses have the same charac-
teristics as those Of Southampton.
There is a martin .hlvOr about the
place, over many doors are seen
branches of coral, yards are adorned with
the curved, bleached bones Of the whale
many of the old men have still the roll
in their gait 10 which years of deck
walking habituated them. A writer in
Harper's monthly, says OF this pretty
spot. nlich with the convenieDces and
elegancies of the city, unites the quiet
aud fleslness Of rural life. st is as
Lowell, as We require for an old seaport
town on a sheltered way"
II we turn northeast fiom Sag
Harbor and follow tue sand, road,
through lanes edged with mid roses,
aud alder blossoms, the blue waters OF
Peconic ever in view, leaving the spires
of tie town behind us, and going deep
Into the country, we come 10 Nolac on
Little Peconlc Bay, once an Indian
hamlet, and in more recent days, al
most village, for sOne reason the
former inhabitants folded their tents
like the Arabs, and silently stole
away" ard Noyac to-day consists of
some half dozen farm houses, and The
mill OF Mr.. Thomas Eldridse, which
mill site dates back some hundred
years. A fourishing lrout-pond has
also be,n established by an enterpris-
Ing gentleman, and out OF what was
int a swamp, he has made a pretty
taste fol pleRsare- ground 20 which sum-
mCr-tourists much resort.
A spirit of calm rest broods over
No &C, tie meaning OF whose Indian
name, l failt d TO ascertain. One could
meyer weary Of The lights and shades
upon The cleaning waters Of Little
P,conlc. Whether the morning sun
made the way q sheet of elitleriDg
silver, or the sunset reflected its e,ories
in most exquisite tints. it was always
beautiful, and more than once brought
to The mind The image of that great
''sca of glass mingled with fire."
which WIS revealed 10 the raft Apostle.
The air is pure and bracing, the bay