Identifier: oldcolonyorpilgr00fall (find matches)
Title: The old colony, or, Pilgrim land : past and present
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Fall River Line
Subjects: Fall River Line
Publisher: Boston : Fall River Line and Old Colony Railroad
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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icularly inviting.Indeed, so exceptionally desirable are the bathing facilities in this sec-tion, that the shore sloping backward and outward from Brandt Pointtoward the jetty is known as the bathing beach. Brandt Pointstands at the entrance of the ancient harbor, the channel, which mustbe traversed by all inbound vessels, running close in to the beach, asthe point is neared, and making a bold, circular sweep around it as theinner harbor is gained. It is an evidence of the estimation in which the bathing facilities ofthis beach are held that the Nantucket, the latest acquisition to thenumber of Nantucket hotels, has a bathing-house of 100 rooms, whileprivate bathing-houses are scattered all about, as if to make the mostof the recreating influences. Nantucket has this commendation of itsvalue as a summering-place, that its hotels are all excellent; but theNantucket is the only one among them situated upon the shore; andalready its proprietor, who is also mine host of the Ocean House at
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68 ities with other craft onward bound, each crew intending to be highline fc i1-- gettinglanded ior the ihalf soUnlikresortsbeachesshores <dangercproximperingmidst oconditisure to everyIndeeition, 1towarstand;be trathe p(innerItithisfcnumbprivaof thvalueNantalrea< the heart of the town, finds that lie must double its size to accommo-date all who would profit by his enterprise. The surf bathing of the island can be found only at Sconset andWauwinet, the beaches above referred to being found in the variousindentations of the shore, or so nearly enclosed by peculiar coast for-mation that anything like a surf-line is precluded. Nantucket is reached by steamboats, the sailing ports on the main-land being New Bedford and Woods Holl, termini of Old Colony Kail-road lines, and intermediate landing-places being at different points onMarthas Vineyard. The distances are : from New Bedford sixty miles,Woods Holl thirty-four miles, and from Oak Bluffs (Marthas Vine-yard) twenty-eight miles.

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