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Identifier: gazetteerofstate00naso (find matches)
Title: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 Varney, George J. (George Jones), 1836-1901
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Gazetteers
Publisher: Boston : B.B. Russell
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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86 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. P1i7-mrvn-f-1-i C~* r\i-\nt\T lies in the southeast section of ther lymOUUl ^OUIUy state? iiaving a Sea-coast on Mas-sachusetts Bay on the east, and another on Buzzards Bay at thesouth, with a smaller extent on Boston Harbor. Its extremelength of land area is about 47 miles, north and south; with anaverage breadth of 20 miles. Its assessed area is 370,038 acres. Itis bounded by Norfolk County and Boston Bay on the north, Massa-
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> I*oo w a co< co ■chusetts Bay on the east, Barnstable County and Buzzards Bay onthe south, and Bristol County on the west. The Old Colony Railroad, with its divergent and connectinglines, penetrates every town in the county, except Carver in thecentre of the southern section. The sea-coasts which constitute solarge a proportion of its boundary afford numerous and ample har-bors. The surface of the county is mostly level, and the scenery is- PLYMOUTH. 87 generally monotonous ; yet there are some spaces of great beauty,and elevations presenting widely extended and interesting prospects.The views of shore and sea from Colemans Hill in Scituate, fromProspect Hill in Hingham, from Captains Hill in Duxbury, fromBurial Hill and Manomet Hill in Plymouth, are unique and fine;while Aldens Hill in Lakeville affords a charming scene of lake,meadow and forest. The geological structure is of granite, sienite,carboniferous rock, and

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