The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . act methods andplans. There is all sufficient of orderly ar-rangement, and but little defiance of commonsense and the proprieties as app[ied to com-munity establishment. Streets and avenuesand parks there are in abundance, and thesesucceed and supplement each other with thatsort of regularity that is observable in theolder sections of Boston, where, it is said,the original cowpaths of the earlier populationwere enlarged and developed into city thorough-fares in process of time. In Cottage Citythere is absolutely nothing of the checkerboa
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . act methods andplans. There is all sufficient of orderly ar-rangement, and but little defiance of commonsense and the proprieties as app[ied to com-munity establishment. Streets and avenuesand parks there are in abundance, and thesesucceed and supplement each other with thatsort of regularity that is observable in theolder sections of Boston, where, it is said,the original cowpaths of the earlier populationwere enlarged and developed into city thorough-fares in process of time. In Cottage Citythere is absolutely nothing of the checkerboard layout, the mathematical precisionwith regard to the settling of highways, thatit may be admitted, constitutes the principalcharm of some modern city establishments,that have no other claim to attractiveness orpleasing characteristics. The compactness of this city by the sea isone of its wonderful characteristics, and yetthere is nothing of closeness or crowdingattaching to the situation, and thereby aidingthe conceit of city existence as applied to. 122 MARTHA*S VINEYARD. the locality. The whole establishment, so faras its individuality is concerned, is packedupon an area of a few hundred acres, and yetthe stranger may—and almost inevitably will—lose himself within the first quarter hourafter his setting out upon a voyage of discov-ery. The crooked; winding, rambling high-ways and byways are largely responsible forthis result, and the feature turns out to be oneof the most pleasing of any of the belongingsof the place. A habit of building here hasbeen to place, at irregular intervals and in themost unexpected locations, circles of cottagesfacing inward upon each other, while one roador pathway—it is often little more—that formsthe highway leading through the section keepsstraight forward, or winds through the other-wise isolated fragments of the site. The mostsingular effects and delusions are often thusproduced, and these circles, with their one,two or three dozen
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