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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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and Isaac Fletcher, amember of Congress. Durensville, inwobum. TV v hn rv oue °^ ^ie o^est anc- most notable towns of theJ_yUA.UUiy, $tate, is situated midway of the eastern shore ofPlymouth County. It is 27 miles southeast of Boston on the South-shore Branch of the Old Colony Railroad, and about six miles northof Plymouth, from which it is separated by the town of Kingstonand Plymouth Harbor. Its bounding town on the west is Pembroke,on the north and northeast Marshfield, and on the east are DuxburyBay and the ocean. The land is generally level, sandy and unproductive ; yet there aresome very fertile spots, especially at South Duxbury, where it rises DUXBURY. 281 into a beautiful and commanding eminence, on which is a monumentto the memory of Captain Miles Standish. From this point is a fineview of the village of Duxbury, in which the Unitarian church, thePartridge Academy and the Town House, contrast finely with thedeep-green forest on the north; of Duxbury Harbor with picturesque
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THE MILES STANDISH MONUMENT, DUXBURY. points, —the long, narrow strip of land called Duxbury Beach, whichseparates the harbor from the open sea on the east,—the GurnetLight, Saquish Xeck; of Clarks Island, Plymouth Harbor, and theblue ridge of Manomet beyond ; the town of Plymouth with its spiresupon the south ; and Pocky Xook and Kingston toward the west. In 282 GAZE T TEEB 0 F MA 8SA CHUSE T TS. clear weather, the Blue Hills of Milton, on the one hand, and on theother the curving shores of Cape Cod, are distinctly visible. Nearthis monument, at the foot of the hill, is the well from which thefamous captain of the Plymouth Pilgrims drank, and also the cellarof the house in which he lived. The quaint old house of his neighborMr. Souther, still standing near, well represents that of the doughtycaptain. Near Captains Hill is the old burial place where The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The eastern part of the town is almost destitute of stone and tim-ber ; and hence a cluster

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