The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . be brought to asudden termination into the shape of anotherwhich winds after the manner of a cork-screwpath. The architecture of the abodes savors of theuncertain ages when dark and curious magicprevailed. Walls, windows and door framesappear, like unto the waves of the Atlantic,rising, swaying and sagging, yet keeping to-gether, thus making a room. The navigation to the attic is attempted bya ladder-like apparatus, which trembles withold age. On the walls are caricatures presum-ably representing some pictoral happening atone time or ano
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . be brought to asudden termination into the shape of anotherwhich winds after the manner of a cork-screwpath. The architecture of the abodes savors of theuncertain ages when dark and curious magicprevailed. Walls, windows and door framesappear, like unto the waves of the Atlantic,rising, swaying and sagging, yet keeping to-gether, thus making a room. The navigation to the attic is attempted bya ladder-like apparatus, which trembles withold age. On the walls are caricatures presum-ably representing some pictoral happening atone time or another but to the unenlightenedthey resemble Chinese writing. Antique fur-niture, the legs and feet of which resemblethe extremities of some monster of the deep;crockery that resembles hob-goblins, andcooking utensils that would make a South Seaislander envious, are prominent features of thedining-rooms. Now and then, the iron cranestill swings in an ancient fireplace and on itare hung the kettles for cooking the dailymeals of ihe inmates. is Fishermens Houses, Siasconset. At the time of the revolution^ Sconset hadbeen prominently identified with the whale-fishery, but now, of course, nothing but thememory of those by-gone days remain. In theyear 1840 there were billiard rooms and bowl-ing alleys at Sconset; they, too, being a relicof the past. The whims and oddities of theproprietors of the cottages are manifested bythe curious inscriptions that adorn the Drop In, is evidently the mode of invi-tation adopted by some wearied being to obtainspontaneousrelief from the monotony of wad- NANTUCKET. 79 ing about. In the N-yum N-yum Hut, it isquite certain some matrimonial craft was firstsailed upon the hymeneal sea. Waunachma=mack Lodge, while evidently a name of somepast chief, is seriously apt to prevent speechentirely, in pronouncing it. Castle Band-Box is suggestive of a bundle of Side apparently the property of a haleand hearty lover of dame nat
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