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188 ourating climate and environment have influenced the patronage of a summer colony from the States, whose cottages adorn advantageous situations on knoll and point. The Hackmatack Inn, intended to provide the resort with a modish hostelry, overlooks all that is typical of Chester—green-turfed islands, islands of rock and hackmatack, the fair reach of bay and twin harbours, inviting coves, safe beaches, wooded vantage-points.

The Lovett House, in the village, has a special reputation for its generous table.

Chester Village mounts a hill above the inlet, where pleasure boats ride at anchor or skim seaward before a sailor's wind. The first regatta held at Chester, in 1856, was for gigs of four oars. The prize was $27.70 in gold. The winner was First-step, built by David Millett, the father of race-boat designing in Chester. Punts, whale-boats, flats and sail yachts were entered in other classes. Three thousand people attended from Lunenburg and adjacent towns, and there were fire-works and processions in celebration of an event familiar enough now among the myriad islands of the bay. Early in August Regatta Week is annually observed under the auspices of the Chester Yacht Club.

An immigrant arriving in the party which came from Boston to Chester in 1759, made note in his diary: "August 4. Saw divers islands and anchored in a most beautiful harbour At night