. Wrecks around Nantucket since the settlement of the island, and the incidents connected therewith, embracing over seven hundred vessels . •-::;:::*; / -■ Vf^-)i 7- •,6re«r ■RduhJ Jha^. 5CALC Of MlLta ^u/nana %Soeiv^ ^oua*^ ■ 5>«*), OV*. S^vl3 *3ouTh ^h«*l Wrecks Around Nantucket [There is an old Indian tradition that some time previous to thesettlement of the island by the whites, a French ship,having on boarda quantity of specie, came ashore at the east end of the island in asevere storm, and was driven up into what is called the Gulch, atrifle to the westward of Siasconset,
. Wrecks around Nantucket since the settlement of the island, and the incidents connected therewith, embracing over seven hundred vessels . •-::;:::*; / -■ Vf^-)i 7- •,6re«r ■RduhJ Jha^. 5CALC Of MlLta ^u/nana %Soeiv^ ^oua*^ ■ 5>«*), OV*. S^vl3 *3ouTh ^h«*l Wrecks Around Nantucket [There is an old Indian tradition that some time previous to thesettlement of the island by the whites, a French ship,having on boarda quantity of specie, came ashore at the east end of the island in asevere storm, and was driven up into what is called the Gulch, atrifle to the westward of Siasconset, and wrecked. The island at thetime was so thickly wooded in that vicinity that they were compelledto cut their way through the forest to reach the Indian is substantially the tradition, as remembered by many of ourolder inhabitants, and it is submitted for what it is worth. That thestory was not wholly regarded as a myth by our ancestors, is shownfrom the fact that the beach in that vicinity has been thoroughly dugover within a hundred years, in the vain hope of unearthing the shipstreasure, which was said to have been buried there.] 1664. During this year, a vessel boun
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