. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. empVllle, in North Adams. Kennersonville, in New Bedford. KenOZa Lake, in Haverhill. KETTLE ISLAND — KINGSTON. 397 Kettle I Sland, off the eastern end of Pond, inAmesbury. K i. is an ancient seaboard town in the easterly part ingSLOn Q£ Plymouth County, 33 miles southeast ofBoston by the Old Colony Railroad. On its north are Pembrokeand Duxbury; on the east, the latter and Kingston Bay; Plymouthlies on the southeast, and Plympton and Halifax on the southwestand west. The assessed area is 10,583 acres
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. empVllle, in North Adams. Kennersonville, in New Bedford. KenOZa Lake, in Haverhill. KETTLE ISLAND — KINGSTON. 397 Kettle I Sland, off the eastern end of Pond, inAmesbury. K i. is an ancient seaboard town in the easterly part ingSLOn Q£ Plymouth County, 33 miles southeast ofBoston by the Old Colony Railroad. On its north are Pembrokeand Duxbury; on the east, the latter and Kingston Bay; Plymouthlies on the southeast, and Plympton and Halifax on the southwestand west. The assessed area is 10,583 acres, including 5,148 acresof woodland. The town has a good harbor for small vessels, which opens intoDuxbury and Plymouth Bay. Silver Lake (formerly Jones RiverPond) lies partly in the northwestern corner, and partly in thetowns of Pembroke, Halifax and Plympton, here adjoining. Fromit flows Jones River southeastward to the harbor, receiving on thenorth, Miles, Tusseck and Pine brooks, and on the south, Jones-River Brook and Smelt Brook. Several other beautiful ponds in. ARRIVAL OF THE MAYFLOWER. different parts of the town impart life and variety to the Indian, Muddy and Smelt ponds, in the southern part of thttown, range in size from 60 to about 100 acres. The land is hand*somely diversified by hill and valley, forest, field and fertile mea-dow. In the southeast is Monks Hill, 313 feet in height, commanding a magnificent view of Plymouth, Captains Hill and the Gurnetin Duxbury, and of the ocean. Pine Hill, overlooking Great IndianPond, also has its peculiar beauty. The bed rock of this town isprincipally granite and sienite. Veins of volcanic trap are thrownup in some localities almost like walls of masonry, especially at theDevils Stair near Rocky Nook, in the southeast. The soil, ingeneral, is a red loam, intermingled with sand and gravel. According to the census of 1885 there were 114 farms, whose prod-uct for that year was $58,391. Fishing is pursued to some
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