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Identifier: guidebooktonorum00shep (find matches)
Title: A guide-book to Norumbega and Vineland
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Shepard, Elizabeth G
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Publisher: Boston, Damrell & Upham
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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^ upon a stone-walled ditch which onecan follow throuo-li a charming;- bit of wood forsome distance.
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NORUMBEGA AND VINELAND. 45 It finally leads up to a dam and tlicsc ditchesand dams can be found all through the valleyof tlie Charles, serving as they did the masur-wood industry. The blocks of wood were floated down thestreams or their tributaries and then canals orditches Avere dug to transport them to the largerstreams and ultimately to the Charles, where,stopped by the boom dam, they were dried andstored for shipment at the city and seaport ofKorumbega. There can be no lovelier excursion for a fair Down the river by boat day in sprinof-time or in the brio^ht autumnal from Fort ^ i- ^ ^ o Norumbega. Aveather with its unbounded wealth of color,than to take a boat at the landing on the riverbank near the tower. One may be procured on the opposite shoreof Xewton, at Riverside, if you have not yourown, and leaving Fort Xorumbega with itspaved ditches and evidences of extensive fisher-ies, you can go down our Charles, the Xorum-bega River of other days, until, witli a carryaround the da

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