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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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^ along, or a fleet of boats. Professor Horsford has erected the beautifulstone tower on the site of Fort Norumbega, fora time occupied by the Bretons some four hun-dred years ago, and as many years earlier as theseat of extensive fisheries and a settlement ofthe Korthmen. The old fort was described tobe at the junction of two streams, the Charlesand Stony Brook. It was surrounded by astockade, and a ditch which still remains. If you start from the tower and go down tothe left, you can follow the ditch nearly to thepaper mill, indeed it curves around and is con-
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NORUMP.EGA AND YINELAXD. 43 tinned across South Street, the road past themill, towards the reservoir. Then retracing- your steps ; from the towerto the right, you can follow it until it finallyends in a delta five hundred or more feet away.This ditch is in places ten or twelve feet deep,much of it graded and carefully paved Tvithrounded boulders on the bottom and sides. From the literature on the subject and hisown deductions. Professor Horsford drove fromhis home in Cambridge to the spot, nine milesaway, and found tlie remains of the fort on hisfirst visit. He has purchased a number of acres of land,so that tlie historic spot is safe and the beauti-ful Xornian tower stands as a ma^nificent andgraceful monument to his convictions. At the base of the tower is set a stone mortar A stone mor-tar foundwhich Avas unearthed upon the orrounds, and is upon tjie ^ ^ grounds. such as the Northmen used in Norway in veryearly times to grind their corn. The evidences of an extensive industry in Pa

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