The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-09-21


road with u dense shade, and sometimes
dropping so low as to ubstruct your pro.
yres,. A ride of u few miles IN any d.
rection through the woods will bring
YOU to !, pond-one. two or three miles
louy-wilose outlet is little stream run
ming south to fad the sea at Buzzards
B,y; or else running iuto another poud
from which 4 similar stream runs into
another, and so on, forming chain OF
little lakes running in all directions.
r,ers are nearly hundred OF these plc-
turesque lakes in the woods Some are
circular and SOME are irregular in shape.
Tue forest stretches down ON green bluffs
10 the shores OF some, while the shores
Of others are narrow white sand beeches,
behind which is u fringe OF syringas anu
till huckleberry bushes, and then the
forest around all. On the shore OF some
OF these lakes you will See small clear
inv under cultivation and All old ho'ne-
ste. I'd aud barn, where :; farmer is estab-
,,shed whose ancestor was drifted BY
strange chance into this Solitary region.
H.. IS not only i farmer, but i hunter and
tisherni IN also.
Coming out OF Plymouth on the county
road you ascend Sparr.w HUI, behind
the town, and discover on the lett Large
sheet OF wafer curving away into tue
woods. The Water is called Ellington
Sci. The people who landed from the
m lytl ,wer" in December had SO little
OF the enterprise rs explorers which their
descendants have had that they knew
nothing OF the sheet OF water close 10y
them until the next summer. when John
! B,IIuyton went up the hill, probably IN
search of s,ssair;.s roots to shipt to Eng
land. and discovered il. 1t was then
called by III. name by which it has been
known to this day. TAis sassairts. hunt-
ing Puritan, not pelng Il governor or
captliG or an elder or member OF the
rinv. would have had u small chance vi
Transmitting his name to our times hau
he not youe out and discovered the Bill
lngton Sea.
ltyou strike into the woods here and
push on nth about tour miles you will
come to Pinnacle Hill, and below 1t you
will See what are called the Great South
Ponds. From these a long line Ut shall
er ponds stretches to the southwest, con-
necled by brooks. On one Otthem stood
tue Federal Furnace, where, it Is said,
cauuon-b Ills were cast tor the federal
} army one hundred years ago. There Is
only !. ruin OF the furnace now TO bt
seen; but small shoestring factory, no
tar from it, represents tho mechanict
ingenuity of the district in this centenni;s
! wear. Southeast from this, in the mid
| I of the woods, are he Long Pond ant
J, Halfway Pond. In the center OF the LAT
the pond is large wooded island. Fur
! Their on, in the direction OF 5 .ndwich, the
| winding roads lead to 5 indy Pond, White
t Island Pond aud. Herring Pond. all oilthen
: large sheets ui water. There are ais
, many ponds ne.r the eastern shore. be
j. low Mano.ne: Point, which find an out
) let emptying into Cape Cod Bay. Blacl
bas., plckercl and red perch are in tn. 9
pond trout are i'll the streams rabbits
!. loxes aud deer are in the woods. Ih
: number OF deer is not large as
l was twenty years ago. But, being nov
: un.ler the protection uf laws which Inn
the time and define the manner of takln
\. them. they u u increasing in numoer.
e Wn.n the "Mayh .wer" arrived tn
: woods that covered this region. even
II the extremity III c ape Odd aud to Mon
d omv. were iull Oh deer, which tho In
!. iii us re in the habit Ut catcuiny |
: traps. Ga one OCCASION their trap causl
+. Il purllau! Ap.rty OF the MAY Il wv
l. p,sseng,rs were out on one al thel
L u,.rau,iing expil:tions-tor imltatln
n which we now ,en,i their descendants
r the State Prlson-When, alter ransickin
Z In,iian huts and z aves, they came upo
!. !, lar .e private sture ui corn. ''also Il gre
Ek1It IL
n fhrlr own nar,a alive says: I'VE lon
n the kett!e and TILED it with corn tor tw
= luen Ia carry on Il stall, AMI each nj,
4 ill, Il his pocket, with Us much corn Il, 3
e mlI carr, the rest we buried ayar
u. tur We were 50 ltdvn with arulor that "
III could carry no more" mas stun
r. aud uideued with stul-n goods the:
~ celebrated gentlemen retraced the
T. steps aud. q, the way ut the tranSgre
j. scr Is nard. they naturally st tnelr wa
u in The woods Wandering" as the
II narrative SAYS. ~: came To Il tree Vile
* i Young >p,rit WIS bpwed dawn ov. T
rr tl,u>e, aud som. acorns strewed un,ie
III ,i~ata, set ny the ln'ii,ns t. catch d.e
ut William Bradford. elu. Ia the Tear. IL III
Il ur, and. wiill>tex ,.n.nin5 u. Il gave
nj ,,lddeu j,.rk. catching hin by the leg.
in WAS "a pretty ,ievice, made with 4 rope
the luuaua' own u,Aing, whien '
uruu. lit away with w." THIS a.lseutu
= >eciu> Ia show that these s.Inctiunpnin
m,n wvrc The prutotype al the Ill ID
=. im;ii.n agent, Il iact which Is asw-,
~ userio,A, Il ny our annual twenty >secJi
III ID ;ceiaoer or.slor>.
~
4, TIE i.rm ers ont. ide of the WOO
:. have never wasted traps or p,w,!er
ar the gaulc ilhin. The w.ods III {
H.. tmles we're useful tn them only rs she-
,.n n rs. Alter shes,rin. IN marking III
M sh ep they iuruesl TEN in . the z. !, mo
=. " -ri-. wucre They were krps uy si,,
=. herd, within certain iiauits desi snaseJ
-. bsaz al trees. 4 iock OF two or In,
nj thousand was generally sent intu /,
II. words from WarehAn. bu, nnw there
m a,t sheep ~ Oc found in all tais
:. gion.
ell Plymouth woods have attracted 81,