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; . st, D. D., F. A. A., of Dartmouth, with Baylies, of Dighton, and others visited Gay Head inJune, 1786, and found many signs which to them were of vol-canic action, citing the fact that they found masses of charcoalunder their feet, large stones whose surfaces were vitrified,and great numbers of small ones cemented together by meltedsand; also cinders were to be seen in many places, etc., then there w
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; . st, D. D., F. A. A., of Dartmouth, with Baylies, of Dighton, and others visited Gay Head inJune, 1786, and found many signs which to them were of vol-canic action, citing the fact that they found masses of charcoalunder their feet, large stones whose surfaces were vitrified,and great numbers of small ones cemented together by meltedsand; also cinders were to be seen in many places, etc., then there were the fireside stories of the oldest inhabitant,whose mother had seen in her youth a mysterious light uponGay Head. There are several small and unnoticed mineral springs onGay Head. Some contain iron, some are charged with alum,and yet others are weakly tinctured with sulphuretted hydro-gen. This is the only part of our northern seacoast where min-eral springs are found. NO MANS LAND. Some six miles south of Gay Head lies No Mans Land, amass of glacial drift, the original Marthaes Vineyard,which coasting along (Nantucket and south shore of Marthas 206 MARTHAS Vineyard) we saw a disinhabited Is-land which so afterwards appeared tous: we bore with it, and named itMarthaes Vineyard • ??? -? heere werode in eight fathome neere the shoare,where we took great store of Cod, asbefore at Cape Cod, but much better—so reports Mr. Gabriel Archer. Nom_inaIly the island, which is i^miles long and i mile wide, is part ofthe town of Chilmark, but the tax col-lector, it is said, never calls. Only oneor two families inhabit the island theyear around. There is no wood, but anabundance of peet which is used forfuel, though in 1702 Judge Sewall wrote: No Mans Land is well watered and wooded and in-habited by 7th day Indians. The land is very fertile, someof it extraordinarily so. It is claimed that one field of grasshas yielded so large a crop that it could not be cured on thesurfa
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