. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. quam Beach, 3 miles inlength. Eastward are Annis-quam Village, with its greatbowlders and Rocking Stone,then Bayview, favorite sum-mer resorts ; and further still,at the northeastern extremityof the town, is Lanesville. Inthe broad space between thelast two and this hill, appearhere and there above the lowertrees the tops of the tall der-ricks marking the locality ofthe vast granite quarries of thispeninsula. The soil here has some clay,generally more or less deeplyoverlaid with sand or sandyloam ; yet in some parts it
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. quam Beach, 3 miles inlength. Eastward are Annis-quam Village, with its greatbowlders and Rocking Stone,then Bayview, favorite sum-mer resorts ; and further still,at the northeastern extremityof the town, is Lanesville. Inthe broad space between thelast two and this hill, appearhere and there above the lowertrees the tops of the tall der-ricks marking the locality ofthe vast granite quarries of thispeninsula. The soil here has some clay,generally more or less deeplyoverlaid with sand or sandyloam ; yet in some parts it isquite fertile. The greenhouseproduct is large proportion-ately ; also that of crop of cranberries, in 1885,amounted to $ 1,216, and thatof strawberries to $3,590. product of the 8Gfarms was $134,981. The man-ufactures of Gloucester are ingreat variety, the establish-ments numbering 332, and con-sisting chiefly of articles con-necting with shipbuilding,navigation, and the fisheries,and articles prepared from largest establishments are. ;;;:;.
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