The Bay State monthly : a Massachusetts magazine . fromthe shore, and saw the fine views which it afforded him, he admiredthe judgment of Eastman Johnson, the artist, in building his summer-house and studio there. A little farther on, upon the Bluffs, the highestpoint on the island, he noted the house of Charles OConor with thelittle brick building close by for his library; he then decided that anisland which could give such physical benefit as this was said to havegiven to Mr. OConor, would not be a bad one in which to invest. Sothe value of the Cliff or Bluffs he placed in his note-book for
The Bay State monthly : a Massachusetts magazine . fromthe shore, and saw the fine views which it afforded him, he admiredthe judgment of Eastman Johnson, the artist, in building his summer-house and studio there. A little farther on, upon the Bluffs, the highestpoint on the island, he noted the house of Charles OConor with thelittle brick building close by for his library; he then decided that anisland which could give such physical benefit as this was said to havegiven to Mr. OConor, would not be a bad one in which to invest. Sothe value of the Cliff or Bluffs he placed in his note-book for future use. At the same time that Mr. Gordon was exploring the land Mrs. Gordonwas in the office of two gallant young civil engineers, exploring theharbor! In fact she was studying a map of the surroundings of the har-bor, which these young men had made to aid them in their work of TEN DAYS IN NANTUCKET. building a jetty from Brant Point to the bell-buoy. As she examined itshe found it hard to believe that Nantucket had ever stood next to Boston. TUCKET, MASS. and Salem, as the third commercial town in the Commonwealth. Shesympathized deeply with the people of the years gone by who had been 194 TEN DAYS IN NANTUCKET. obliged to struggle with such a looking harbor as the map revealed, andsaid that she should go home to learn more of the Camels, whichshe honored more than ever. When they told her that probably threeyears more than the two that had been given to the work were neededto finish the jetty, and that there was a slight possibility that another onewould be needed for the best improvement of the harbor, she thoughther interest in the matter could be better kept alive if she should huntup her old trigonometry and learn that all over again! With this ideashe left the young men, whose kindness to her she fully appreciated, andwent to find her party. She soon found, on the yacht ready to go backto town, all but Miss Ray ; she had chosen to take one of the many car-riages whic
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