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Title: Buzzards Bay, Mass
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (New York
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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roads branch ofl fromthis shore highway. These arethe roads for which Massachu-setts is famous. If you are inter-ested in geology theneighborhood fromFairhaven to Marionand beyond willarouse your interest. Tumbled about in the fields you will see immense bowldersand smaller rock deposits that have been hurled down fromthe White Mountains, two hundred miles away, by mightyglacial forces. One of the largest of these bowlders is WardsRock, almost on the dividing line between Fairhaven andMattapoisett. In Marion is a huge bowlder which has been namedMinisters Rock. Around this the Indians held pow-wows.It was the pulpit of the Rev. Samuel Shiverick, a notedmissionary among the Indiansin Pilgrim days. At Mattapoisettis one of the largest bowlders in New England. It is 42 feethigh and 36 feet wide. You will want to see the stone calledthe Devils foot and also the Dumpling Rock which a manmay move with one hand but which a score of the strong-est men have vainlv tried to roll from its base.
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ONSET From Marion we embark in a motor boat for a cruise toOnset Bay. We pass mirthful parties of young folks in bath-ing suits, setting forth in canoes and catboats for a dayssport on the water. Their faces and arms are tanned a ruddybrown. What appetites theyll have when they return! Rounding Great Neck Point we pass Bird Island and itslighthouse. Great Hill looms up over Great Neck Point. Itis 127 feet high and is a noted landmark for sailors. Herethe Bay begins to narrow. In these waters thrive the Buz-zards Bay oysters, famous for their size and flavor. Theoyster beds are worked under licenses granted by the townsbordering the Bay and they are as carefully surveyed, plottedand cultivated as farmers fields on land. We are now approaching the northeastern shore of theBay. We are in sight of Indian Neck and Tempest Knob, onthe wooded shores of which are the summer residents ofmany well known Boston families. Leaving Indian Neck and theKnob, on the right we enter Wareham River, a wid

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