The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . the glacier of the lastice epoch. • =• The ice sheet failed to obliterate many de-tails of the topography which were due to differential erosionbefore the advent of the glacier. 184 MARTHAS VINEYARD. CHILMARK. ON THE SOUTH South Road out ofWest Tisbury is in the begin-ning much Hke other Vine-yard roads until we comewithin sight of ChilmarkPond and the ocean and thenbegins a wonderful living,moving picture. A
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . the glacier of the lastice epoch. • =• The ice sheet failed to obliterate many de-tails of the topography which were due to differential erosionbefore the advent of the glacier. 184 MARTHAS VINEYARD. CHILMARK. ON THE SOUTH South Road out ofWest Tisbury is in the begin-ning much Hke other Vine-yard roads until we comewithin sight of ChilmarkPond and the ocean and thenbegins a wonderful living,moving picture. A fore-ground of pasture lands dot-ted with sheep and occasionalhomes, with here and there awell or some other homelysuggestion off in a field by it-self. Beyond are the quietwaters of the pond, the stripof sand beach and the limit-less Atlantic, a vast desolation where no living thing shows,and yet a silver sea with the bright sun on it, sparkling andflashing with every breath of air. Though solitary enough now,there have been ir^oving pictures of great excitement within sight of this shore. CHASED BY A PRIVATEER. From Voyages of an Old Sea Captain we have the follow-. I)()(ir of tlie only ili-Sfited Iioiise on tlioSouth Roiid. CHILMARK. 185 ing stor3^ told by Capt. Jeremiah Holmes himself. In 1813Captain Holmes, a Connecticut sailorman, was given the com-mand of the famous sloop Hero, in which he left Charlestonwith a load of cotton and other articles for the north in Febru-ary, 1813, and dodged the English blockading squadron untilnear No Mans Land, when I discovered a brig on my weatherquarter, and at once spread all my canvass and squared awaybefore the wind. The brig came bounding after me. • * *I now made two English frigates directlj^ on my bow. • ?? ??I jibed and stood to the eastward * • ••? but I shortly headedtoward Marthas Vineyard. The wind now died away, and we were close in to NoMans Land. The brig lowered her boat armed with musketsand prosecuted th
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