Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' By George ! I 've got him." ments, and that the receding water will carry him out again into safety. Hence all projecting rocks and promontories — where one can sit in safety, and from which a cast can be made into deep water, and where the incoming surf may be permitted toroll under his perch — are the desiderata for bass-fishers. One of the most attractive spots in these particulars — chosen for description here as typical of these fishing-grounds — is the group of islands known as the Elizabeth Islands, lying between the mainland of Massachusetts and Martha's Vineyard; a long succession, evidently in prehistoric times connected together, and forming a continuous line from S. S. E. to N. N. W., commencing with Cuttyhunk, and continuing with Nashewena and Pasque, to Naushon ; which brings us to Wood's Holl and the main — a stretch of say seventeen miles. North of Cuttyhunk is the little island of Penekese, where the revered Agassiz started a school of ichthyology, which has been abandoned since his death. Between these islands and the mainland on the north lie the waters of Buzzard's Bay ; and southward and toward the ocean lie the land of Martha's Vineyard and the water of Martha's Vineyard Sound, — the highway of vessels coming from the West, either outside of Long Island or through Long Island Sound, and bound for Boston—which, at its western entrance, is flanked on the south by beautiful Gay Head, and on the north by Cuttyhunk. 130 If we visit one of these resorts, we shall see for ourselves in what consists the fascination which draws young and old men, yachtsmen, merchants, and bankers, idlers and busy men, wives and maidens, season after season, from gayer and more fashionable places, to these sober, quiet, and seemingly unattractive spots. The home of o...