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; . one Around theWorld. During the Fall of1907 the Captain was makingarrangements to leave in hisyawl Spray for SouthAmerica, the object of histrip being the exploration ofthe Orinoco BOTTOM AND NANCY short distance out of West Tisbury village on the roadto Edgartown lies Deep Bottom, where the last Indian wig-wam stood. And in this same general direction, but near thearm of the Great Tisbury Pond, known
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; . one Around theWorld. During the Fall of1907 the Captain was makingarrangements to leave in hisyawl Spray for SouthAmerica, the object of histrip being the exploration ofthe Orinoco BOTTOM AND NANCY short distance out of West Tisbury village on the roadto Edgartown lies Deep Bottom, where the last Indian wig-wam stood. And in this same general direction, but near thearm of the Great Tisbury Pond, known as Tyers Cove, oncelived a light-headed lady named Nancy Luce, who was whatone might call chicken mad; she exalted her pets to her ownlevel, and when her fowl friends died carefully marked theirgraves with tombstones bearing appropriate inscriptions. Thepeculiarities of Nancy Luce attracted many visitors, and shehad wit enough to make money out of them with her photo-graphs and poetry, though she wrote of them: They comefrom Vineyard Haven and Edgartown, and I feel sick, all The Siiray in which Caiitain JoshuaSlocinii sailed alone around the world. 180 MARTHAS Tlie oldest house in West Tisbiiry villajje, known ;istlie Jolin E. Johnson house. my time murderedso much. One ofher orders for fuelwas 2 barrels cokecole, that sort thekerosene is all tookout of it. GEOLOGY The south side ofthe island is largelycomposed of whatthe geologist callsterrace deposits;that is, the finer ma-terial brought downby the glaciers and formed by tidal action or by the action ofthe v/aves at some distance from the ice front. On the Vineyardthis has resulted in a nearly flat surface cast in gentle undula-tions, through v/hich run shallow valleys that extend from thebase of the kame deposits, of coarser material, in a nearlysoutherly direction to the shore line, these generally termin-ating in the various ponds or coves which indent the southernshore of the island. The only explanation which
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