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Side 30
... island of Nantucket has been called , " a sand bank , " till its sterility has become proverbial , and no other idea of its na- ked plains is entertained upon the neighboring continent , than that they form a place for fishermen to dry ...
... island of Nantucket has been called , " a sand bank , " till its sterility has become proverbial , and no other idea of its na- ked plains is entertained upon the neighboring continent , than that they form a place for fishermen to dry ...
Side 36
... island , which manufacture great quantities of candles , and supply the numerous light - houses of our coast , as well as the streets of our cities with oil ; besides occasionally contributing to the unbounded consumption of the London ...
... island , which manufacture great quantities of candles , and supply the numerous light - houses of our coast , as well as the streets of our cities with oil ; besides occasionally contributing to the unbounded consumption of the London ...
Side 38
... island was an indian , who had committed mur- der upon the high seas ; and corporal punishment ( once so freely dispensed in Newengland , and not unknown even in the best days of Pennsylvania ) has here long been obsolete . The prison ...
... island was an indian , who had committed mur- der upon the high seas ; and corporal punishment ( once so freely dispensed in Newengland , and not unknown even in the best days of Pennsylvania ) has here long been obsolete . The prison ...
Side 39
... island once abounded with Teal , Brant , and other varieties of wild fowl ; and the head of the harbour , running several miles inland , furnished the first set- tlers with plenty of clams and oysters . These have now become scarce ...
... island once abounded with Teal , Brant , and other varieties of wild fowl ; and the head of the harbour , running several miles inland , furnished the first set- tlers with plenty of clams and oysters . These have now become scarce ...
Side 40
... island , in which the most responsible personages are seen riding about with all the gravity of decorum , in hats and wigs , with their wives and daughters at their side . When riding chairs were first introduced at Nantucket the ...
... island , in which the most responsible personages are seen riding about with all the gravity of decorum , in hats and wigs , with their wives and daughters at their side . When riding chairs were first introduced at Nantucket the ...
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