The Pine-tree coast . king philips wampum-belt. ^s= CHAPTER X. FROM SCARBOROUGH TO PORTLAND HEAD. The ocean overpeering of his list,Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste. — PINE-TREE DEVICE. VEE marshes cleanly trenched by a network of salt-water inlets, through roads broidered with wildflowers,—where daisies blow, and the purple flower-de-luce springs up from sheaves of sword-like flag,— our way lies along the storied Scarborough tide-water, which surges in from seathrough the opening between Pine Point and thelong promontory of Prouts Neck,1 at once throwsoff three
The Pine-tree coast . king philips wampum-belt. ^s= CHAPTER X. FROM SCARBOROUGH TO PORTLAND HEAD. The ocean overpeering of his list,Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste. — PINE-TREE DEVICE. VEE marshes cleanly trenched by a network of salt-water inlets, through roads broidered with wildflowers,—where daisies blow, and the purple flower-de-luce springs up from sheaves of sword-like flag,— our way lies along the storied Scarborough tide-water, which surges in from seathrough the opening between Pine Point and thelong promontory of Prouts Neck,1 at once throwsoff three long, crooked arms, resembling the feelersof the octopus, that with many a snaky twist andturn reach far up through the broad levels ofmeadow, into the retreating land. Without doubt,these marshes first attracted settlers to the spot. They furnished an abundantcrop of salt-hay, with no other labor than that of cutting, curing, and stackingit; they swarmed with the wild mallard, crane, duck, and brant, and they werebordered by clam-beds so prolific that they have never failed from that day tothis, although constantly dug over for two centuries and a half. It would bequite safe t
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