The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . Island bellesshow their energy by producing a cloth madeafter the manner of the ancients. A pair ofJapanese shoes that are sometimes worn bythe natives in the place of rubbers, resemblegreatly a wash-stand on a small scale. AnEsquimaux jacket made from the intestines ofthe seal and walrus exemplify the ingenuityof the northerners. A series of prints represents, pictorially dif-ferent events in the unfortunate life of MarieStuart. On every side may be encounteredquaint old emblems of the past, that cannotbut evoke appreciation of the tale
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . Island bellesshow their energy by producing a cloth madeafter the manner of the ancients. A pair ofJapanese shoes that are sometimes worn bythe natives in the place of rubbers, resemblegreatly a wash-stand on a small scale. AnEsquimaux jacket made from the intestines ofthe seal and walrus exemplify the ingenuityof the northerners. A series of prints represents, pictorially dif-ferent events in the unfortunate life of MarieStuart. On every side may be encounteredquaint old emblems of the past, that cannotbut evoke appreciation of the talent that imbuethe savage, however do we differ from thoseuncultivated beings, in social problems. Of old houses on Nantucket there areseveral that locally enjoy this distinction, butthe old weather-beaten structure that sets backabout 150 yards from the road on Sunset Hillavenue is indisputably the Old house was built in 1686. Of late years ithas been sadly neglected and today is dividednearly in half as a result of inattention. 52 Old Home, 1742. Just off Winter street is the famous Coffinschool which was constructed in^1826. IsaacCoffin, its founder, was at the time of its es-tablishment, an admiral in the British a long while the school flourished, but,at the time of this writing, (1899) it is closed. The Spanish Bell which hangs in thetower of the Unitarian church was brought toNantucket in 1812 by Capt. Charles Clasby,who purchased it at Lisbon. There is nothingvery picturesque about the bell. A short timeago the tongue of the bell broke off while
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