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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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^ fond of swimming,performing Avonderful feats of strength andendurance under water, these terraces mighthave afforded opportunity for an extended viewup and down the river during such ^performances.One can also land near the Arsenal, and halfRemains of a mile away to the east, towards West Newton, ancient theatre. there are the remains of an ancient theatre with terraces nearly as well defined. Then, returning to your little craft once more, continue down the riv^er until, approach-
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NORUMBEGA AND VINELAND. 47 ing Cambridge, you round the south-westernpromontory, from beyond which the Skrael-lings issued upon their visits to Thorfinn. Down the bit of river that flows from south-east to north-west, as required by the saga ofThorfinn, you come once more to the site ofLeifs house and his landing-place, all thesepoints being the only ones on the river to whichthe language of the sagas fit. Then lazily float down through the marshesthat in the sunlight have all the glor)- andcolor of autumn foliage. As Lowell sung: Dear marshes . . .From every season drawn of shade and light. In spring they lie one broad expanse of green,Oer which the light winds run with glimmering feet, Here, yellower stripes track out the creek unseen,There, darker growths oer hidden ditches meet; And purpler stains show where the blossoms crowd. As if the silent shadows of a cloudHung there becalmed, with the next breath to fleet. A little farther on, and Boston, remindingone of Venice, is before 3

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