The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . and shelterand bless almost every cottage away fromthe ocean front. Their trunks are fromone to two feet through, gnarled andknotted and burled in most singular, and oftengrotesque, formations. Their great limbsspread amazingly, with a vitality and far-reaching comprehensiveness of a work to per-form that are suggested to every appreciativebeholder. In their branches the summer birdsnestle and busy themselves, and under theirshade the summer residents linger and rest—oh, how they rest!—themselves. It is probable that the great majority o
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . and shelterand bless almost every cottage away fromthe ocean front. Their trunks are fromone to two feet through, gnarled andknotted and burled in most singular, and oftengrotesque, formations. Their great limbsspread amazingly, with a vitality and far-reaching comprehensiveness of a work to per-form that are suggested to every appreciativebeholder. In their branches the summer birdsnestle and busy themselves, and under theirshade the summer residents linger and rest—oh, how they rest!—themselves. It is probable that the great majority of peo-ple who make reference by voice or pen toMarthas Vineyard are thinking when they doso, only of Cottage City, that place being thegrand centre of attractions and interests forthe whole island, and, indeed, the summeringcentre, par excellence, of all the land and waterthereabouts. Yet this township occupies buta moiety of the territory of Marthas Vine-yard—a section only of an island beautiful inevery part, and replete with facinations within. 5» 128 Marthas vineyard. and without. Other portions of MarthasVineyard are grandly attractive to the summersojourner and visitor ; and all the towns, vil-lages and hamlets of the island have naturalfacinations and delights of their own thatrender them desirable and supremely worthythe attention of the summer seeker. Edgar-town, the shire town of the county, is aboutfive and a half miles south on the coast fromCottage City. It is most delightfully situatedon sheltered harbor waters that open on apicturesque bay, and is a quiet, dreamy oldtown—a relic of the days when the whale fish-eries were active and at the height of their im-portance at Nantucket, New Bedford, Matta-poisett and hereabouts, and the whole coastwas animated with the industries and flourish-ing with the prosperity that these pursuits en-gendered. Edgartown formerly included thewhole section of the island upon which Cot-tage City and itself are now found, and
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