. Here and there in New England and Canada . on railroad, and of the SomersetClub. It cost forty-five thousand dollars, and is of seam-faced roughstone, with memorial windows, Mexican-onyx and yellow Numidian-marble panels, a roof suggested by that of Merton-College Library, inold Oxford, a screen made of fragments of mediaeval oak-carving 47 brought fiom Morlaix,. in Brittany, and a picturesque tower. Tliearchitect was C. F. McKim. Over the arch are Goetlies words : Choosewell, your choke is brief and yet endless. Space fails to tell of the lovelj drives through the perfumed aislesof the Esse
. Here and there in New England and Canada . on railroad, and of the SomersetClub. It cost forty-five thousand dollars, and is of seam-faced roughstone, with memorial windows, Mexican-onyx and yellow Numidian-marble panels, a roof suggested by that of Merton-College Library, inold Oxford, a screen made of fragments of mediaeval oak-carving 47 brought fiom Morlaix,. in Brittany, and a picturesque tower. Tliearchitect was C. F. McKim. Over the arch are Goetlies words : Choosewell, your choke is brief and yet endless. Space fails to tell of the lovelj drives through the perfumed aislesof the Essex Woods, rich in mosses and ferns, and in vistas of flicker-ing light, and the music of the pine-trees; of the many rambles alongthe resounding shore, over breezy headlands and surf-swept beaches;of the beautiful villas and grounds of the Wigglesworths and Curtisesand Hemenwa3^s, and other noble New-England families; of the quaint1)1(1 village, on its secluded river-harbor, with its tall white churchesand gardeu-)jorder< colonial The first of the sunmier-cottagers here (after Dana) were RussellSturgis, jun., and President BuUard; and the development of this wildand picturesque strand into a maritime Belgravia has since gone for-ward amain, until the valuation of the town has grown in twent)--five years from eight hundred thousand dollars to nearly four milliondollars. The venerable Rev. Dr. Bartol, the chief mover in the developmentof Manchester as a summer-resort, said: The men once here had thelioe in one hand and the gun in the other. The eartli-works still re-main on Glass Head and Nortons Neck, behind which they lay readyfor the fight. Next, Manchester was a fishery. Sixty sail of vessels,large and small, went from this port. The wliarves and stone steps 48
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