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Tourists' guide to Down the Harbor, Hull and Nantasket, Hingham, Cohasset, Marshfield, Scituate, Duxbury, the famous Jerusalem Road, historic ... R.I. and the summer resorts of Cape Cod - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...like the billows of the ocean in a strong tideway, this conformation affording situations for numerous ponds and lakelets, hundreds of which are to be found within the town limits, their clear waters, usually white-sanded shores and bottoms, rendering them attractive features, to say nothing of the Btores of fine fish with which many of them are stocked, either naturally or by artifical methods. The forests are ancient and primeval, sometimes extending for miles without a break save where great fires have devastated, and showing neither building nor clearing in evidence that man ever brought the region under subjection. Within the past decade as many as two hundred deer have been killed in these and the adjacent woods of Sandwich during a single year, and not a season passes that sportsmen or sojourners do not see specimens of this noble game in these locations. Skirting the lakes and ponds and winding over and among the hills, innumerable roads thread, well-defined and hardened by the usage of nearly three centuries, and affording the most beautiful drive-ways imaginable. Delightsome ocean views are obtained from the summits of hill-tops extending for miles inland, and outlooks over fair sections of hill and dale, with water-bits shimmering and glistening in the picture, so beautiful that sometimes the original Indian occupants of the land bestowed their most musically descriptive names to designate the sections or localities. Springs of purest water abound and bubble over on every side, often proving the sources of the finest ponds. Many of these sheets of water are embosomed in wild forests, in which the red deer, the eagle and the wood-duck still find a resting place. ONSET Onset Bay Grove is situated in the extreme southeast portion of Massachusetts, o...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130553981
- ISBN 13 9781130553987
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
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