of granite, and made imposing with two massive towers; the isinglass and glue factories; the hide factory; the granite quarries on the woody middle > and northern background, advertising themselves to the eye through scores of lofty derricks, and to the ear through powder-blasts loud as reports of heavy ordnance; and the hotels for summer visitors, on the high grounds north of Pigeon Cove Harbor, - all these prominent objects, together with the more numerous and less marked, belonging to the plan of the town, indicate the achievements of a long series of peaceful years. How great have been the victories of peace! A charming picture to the vision of the passing mariners from every commercial land; especially to that of the increasing thousands, who, every midsummer, while resting from the toil of hand and brain, and avoiding the fervors and pestilences of the crowded cities, not only resort to the places of pure air and grateful, cooling breezes for comfort and health, but also indulge the inclination for yachting, and for enjoying from point to point, as they sail, the fine views of the shore from the sea: views to be kept in memory as better than wealth, or all that one might gather and hoard in a lifetime of unbroken, avaricious toil.

The sketches of the sea-fights of the Revolutionary War will not be forgotten. Such bloody encounters are exceptional and startling, and strain the nerves; but if, for right and justice, they

must take place, they take on and wear the dignity and glory of lofty endeavor, of generous and noble self-sacrifice. Stories of such conflicts will be written in books and repeated among the tales of the fireside from year to year for centuries.

EVENTS OF THE LAST WAR WITH ENGLAND.

It has been seen what the old seafaring men of the Cape did, scarcely more than a cannon-shot from the abodes of their wives and children, in the first war with Great Britain. So something should be related here of the similar action of their sons on our waters in the last war with the same power.

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"In August, 1813," (Mr. Babson's History is again quoted), "the British ship Nymph,' then cruising off the coast, commenced depredations upon the fishermen and coasters, and occasioned considerable alarm among the inhabitants. She made several captures; but her captain released his prizes upon the payment of a ransom, for the purpose of raising which the masters of three coasters and six fishing-boats were ashore at one time. The amount then required was two hundred dollars for each vessel. Resistance in all these cases was, of course, useless; but in one, in which the force of

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the enemy was less formidable, our people defended their property successfully. Some time in August, one of the enemy's cruisers, of about sixty tons, called the Commodore Broke,' stood into Sandy Bay, with the intention of taking one or more loaded coasters then lying at anchor there. Having neared the shore, and wishing, perhaps, first to try the courage of the people, she fired several large and grape shot into the village; upon which the men of the place assembled on the Neck, and from the north-easterly part of the old wharf, where they had a small cannon, began to fire upon the enemy with that, and also with their small arms. At this time the captain of the cruiser had commenced to sweep out of the bay; but the Cape men did not let him escape without showing him a token of their spirit and skill, for the first cannon-ball they fired at him entered the schooner under her transom, and passing under deck came out near her stern above water. The firing upon the vessel was kept up from Bearskin Neck, and the men at Pigeon Cove gave her several musket-shot as she passed their shore, but she got off without further damage; and our people, by their bravery, preserved a considerable amount of property.

"A more important affair occurred in September at Sandy Bay. The people at that place had, in the spring of this year, erected at their own expense a fort on the point of Bearskin Neck, and

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procured for it three carriage-guns, which were
placed in charge of a corporal, with a detachment
from one of the companies at the Harbor "
(Gloucester). "On the 8th of September, the
British frigate Nymph' took one of the fishing-
boats belonging to the place; and her skipper
(Captain David Elwell) was compelled to act as
pilot for two barges, full of men, which the captain
of the frigate determined to send in to get posses-
sion of the fort. These barges started from the
frigate about midnight, and, hidden from sight by a
dense fog, were rowed with muffled oars towards
the Neck; and, having reached it, one of the
barges proceeded into Long Cove, and landed her
men at what is called the Eastern Gutter.'
enemy then marched to the fort; took the sentinel
by surprise; made prisoners of the soldiers, four-
teen in number; spiked the guns, which they threw
out of the fort. The other barge went into the
old dock on the western side of the Neck; where
her men soon encountered some of the people of
the village, who had been roused by an alarm given
by a sentinel stationed on the Neck, not far from
the houses. It was now daybreak, and a clear
morning. Several musket-balls were fired at this
barge by three of the Cape men, who got in return
cannon and grape shot, but received no injury
from them. To silence the alarm-bell, which was
now ringing, several shot were fired at the belfry
of the meeting-house, one of which struck one of

the posts of the steeple. But this attempt had a disastrous and nearly fatal termination for the enemy; for the firing of their large gun caused a butt to start in the bow of the barge, which soon began to fill with water, and finally sank just as the men got her in near the rocks back of the pier. The officer in command, and a few of his men, ran across the Neck, and seizing a boat made their escape. The rest, a dozen or more, were made prisoners. In the mean time, the men who took the fort had, with all their prisoners, or a part of them, got into their barge, and were on their way back to the frigate."

Soon after, an exchange of prisohers was effected; and the British captain gave his word that through the rest of the autumn the fishermen toiling on their fishing-grounds should not be molested. He will be remembered as having honorably kept his promise.

These are some of the few instances of attack from the sea, and of resistance from the land, at the end of the Cape, in the last struggle of our nation with the mother country.