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Title: King's handbook of Boston harbor
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 King, Moses, 1853-1909 Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929, ill
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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go, and many lives have been lost in trying to land uponit. There is no shelter nor anchorage; and occasionally, after a longstorm, the fishermen find on its rocks fragments of decks and masts, theonly memorials of all-destroying wrecks. This lonely and legend-hauntedrock has been called the home of the East Wind, that worst of scourges inwinter and spring, and most delightful of blessings in summer. Often duringthe scalding days of July and August the Outer-Brewster zephyrs go troop-ing up the harbor, bearing life and refreshment through all the town, anddispelling its muggy vapors and exhalations. The Shag (or Egg) Rocks are a group of formidable ledges, rising fromthe waves south of Brewsters, and very dangerous to mariners, many of KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 223 whom have lost their lives here. At midnight, on the 3d of November,1861, the ship Montana, laden with a rich cargo, and bearing many human lives, struck on theShag Rocks. . . . Theforward part of thevessel jammed in
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Villa of Augustus Russ, Esq., on the Middle Brewster. among the rocks, and held fast: the stern was in deep water. There wasa driving snowstorm when she struck, and it was very cold. The wretched 224 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. passengers, who at one time were safe on the inhospitable rocks, were per-suaded that the vessel would hold together, and, impelled by the piercingcold, returned to the ship, and were lost.1 At seven in the morning thevessel broke in two; and 25 of her crew and passengers, including severalwomen and children, were drowned. Their bodies were thrown up onLight-House Island days afterwards. Thirteen persons clung to the rocksuntil the next day, when they were gallantly rescued by Samuel James ofHull, in a small dory, and placed on board a pilot-boat. Many other disas-ters have happened on these rocky fangs, but none so terrible as this. Ona stormy March night of 1861 the schooner Enterp)ise drove in on to theEgg Rocks, and was very quickly broken in pieces. S

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