. New England; a human interest geographical reader. wanderings, and was made theslave of a chief named Quinnapin. Often they weredestitute of food, and were driven to boil the hoofsof dead horses, or to procure marrow from old bones,and eked out this fare with groundnuts and the tenderbuds of trees. If a deer or a bear was killed, they hada ravenous feast. After a few months Mrs. Rowland-son was negotiating w^asdone at RedemptionRock near WachusettPond in the town ofPrinceton. Massachusetts wasthe leading colony formining and manufac-turing iron for a hun-dred years. At firstthe
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. wanderings, and was made theslave of a chief named Quinnapin. Often they weredestitute of food, and were driven to boil the hoofsof dead horses, or to procure marrow from old bones,and eked out this fare with groundnuts and the tenderbuds of trees. If a deer or a bear was killed, they hada ravenous feast. After a few months Mrs. Rowland-son was negotiating w^asdone at RedemptionRock near WachusettPond in the town ofPrinceton. Massachusetts wasthe leading colony formining and manufac-turing iron for a hun-dred years. At firstthe iron was obtained largely from rusty deposits in swamps. The farmerswould combine to establish rude forges where the orewas melted with charcoal iires and cast into sucharticles as kettles and cannon, or hammered into bariron. Later, richer ores were opened up, and pig irongood enough to be used for edged tools was producedin furnaces. The iron for the famous Monitor, whichplayed so important a part in the Civil War, camefrom near Mount Grey Lancaslers Great Kim, which al-tained a girth of twenty-five feet 148 New England Most of the New England mines closed long agobecause they could not compete with those in Pennsyl-vania and the West. Nevertheless, iron and steelmanufactures that require little metal, but muchskilled labor and exact machinery, still flourish in NewEngland. For instance, over half the tacks of thenation are made in or near Taunton. At the edge of the water beside the Taunton Riverin Berkley is the famous Dighton Writing Rock,with its curious, but rather indefinite flat, sculptured face of this granite rock rises aboutfive feet above the ground and is eleven feet designs were on the rock when the first settlersfound it. Some have thought they were chiselled bythe order of one of the old pirate captains to mark thesite of buried treasure, and the shore roundabout fora considerable distance has been all dug over in avain search f
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