The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . Clinton 120 MARTHAS VINEYARD. every kind and description of summer dwell-ing is included within the house provision ofCottage City. These cottages are planted with a charmingdisregard of the rules of exact 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 section
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . Clinton 120 MARTHAS VINEYARD. every kind and description of summer dwell-ing is included within the house provision ofCottage City. These cottages are planted with a charmingdisregard of the rules of exact 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
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