. New England; a human interest geographical reader. e placed a page lOO New England at the end devoted solely to punctuation marks withwhich the pubHc was requested to /pepper and saltthe text to suit themselves. Several noteworthy places on the coast south ofBoston remain to be mentioned. First comes Quincy,where a leading spirit among the pioneer settlers was aman named Morton. He conducted a profitable tradewith the Indians, but he and his fellows devoted theirgains to rioting and drunkenness. They called theirvillage Merrymount, and set up a May-pole eighty feethigh about which they drank
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. e placed a page lOO New England at the end devoted solely to punctuation marks withwhich the pubHc was requested to /pepper and saltthe text to suit themselves. Several noteworthy places on the coast south ofBoston remain to be mentioned. First comes Quincy,where a leading spirit among the pioneer settlers was aman named Morton. He conducted a profitable tradewith the Indians, but he and his fellows devoted theirgains to rioting and drunkenness. They called theirvillage Merrymount, and set up a May-pole eighty feethigh about which they drank and frisked like so manyfuries. It was learned at Plymouth that they wereselling muskets to the Indians, and Captain MilesStandish came and dispersed the rioters, and Mortonwas sent to England. Nearly all the southwestern part of the town is amass of granite rock that rises six hundred feet above the level of thesea. Here isone of theoldest quarriesin the wasthe birthplaceof two presi-dents of theUnited States,John Adamsand his son,. Two houses, in each ()f which was born apresident of the United States On the Massachusetts Coast lOI John Quincy Adams. The simple farmhouses in whichthey were born are not a stones throw apart. When the elder Adams was a boy he had to studyLatin grammar, and he found it so dull that he wentto his father and told him he did not like study, andwanted some other employment. Well, John, the father said, then you may tryditching. He set the boy to work in a meadow back of the house,and at first the change seemed delightful. But bynight John would haveliked to quit the , however, made himcontinue at it anotherday. Then he informedhis father that he couldbear the abominable ditch-ing no longer, and thathe would go back to theLatin grammar. The great Fore Rivership-building works areat Quincy. They makesteam yachts, steelschooners, and variousvessels large and smallfor naval use. Beyond Quincy is Hingham, which has a very in-ter
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