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which rises abruptly from the beach to a
height of about fifty feet. commanding
distant views OF Nahant, Boston harboI
| and .,antasket en- the south, and Marble
head on the north.
| The historical attractions of the neigh
| borhood will appeal to many. Within
| two miles to the south is the ancient fish,
| ing village of Swampscott, reached by
| Puritan road, once an Indian trail fol ow-
| ing the shore as closely as the great
promontories permit, but now one of the
most beautiful driving roads in the coun-
| try. The Paradise road also leads into
Swampscott village through primeval
woods
On the north. within like diA1ance. is the
picturesque old town Of Marbiehead IA
nous for it's history in revolutionary
entitled Skipper Ireson's Ride" There in
the old inn dwelt Agnes Surriage the
pretty barmaid who became the wife of
the royal governor Of the Massachusetts
Bay colony.
Across the harbor is Marblehead Neck
with it's palatial summer residences, and
there also is the famous Eastern Yacht
and the old custom house, where Ma
than.el Hawthorne served as collector
and where he wrote THE Scarlet Letter"
and other stories famous in literature
Just beyond is Danvers where in the
latter part OF the seventeenth century the
witchcraft delusion f1ourished, and where
Rebecca Morse and other innocent vic
Tins we're put to death. Here the revo-
lutiOnary hero, Gen. Israel Putnam, was
born and here also was the home of the
poet Whittier.
Superb Air Of Nantucket.
The one feature that more than all
others has brought the Island of Nan
tucket it's renown as a health resort is
"a All O1o
show its location-thirty miles from near
est mainland-makes an enervating land
breeze an impossibility: every breeze
must be sea breeze-nature' own puri-
| fier-while the prevailing summer winds
southwest and south-must come hun.
dreds if not thousands Of miles over the
cool ocean waves. destroying all germs OF
disease and imparting the health-giving
ozone, which restores lost vitality to
worn-out nature. A sojourn al Nan
tucket Is equal to a sea voyage, yet ii
gives the comforts of home and enables
one to escape the discomforts of an ocean
| trip.
Eminent physicians state that for in
somnia and nervous diseases, and many
cases Of neuralgia and asthma Nam
tucket air is specific. There are mere
days of fair weather than at any other
point on. the seaboard. The mean tenn
perature for July. 1897, was 6S degrees
|
July. 1899. IS: August, 66: July, 1900, 50;
August, 60. The summer of 1901 was in
tensely hot over a greater part of this
| country. but at Nantucket the mean for
July was 6S.S; highest temperature. So
| August mean. 6S.4: highest. 20. July,
1902, $40: August. 667; July. 1903, 81. 6:
August, 64.2: July. 1904. 67.9: August,
| G5.9. Average mean for past eight years,
July, 67.5; August, 81. These figures We're
obtained from the United States weather
| bureau. The warm waters OF the guilt
| stream constantly washing its shores, 1t
! is free from the violent changes and chill
| ing fogs that are apt to prevail in places
| farther north. This will also account
for the mild and beautiful weather OF
| September and October, which induces so
| many people to remain during these
months.
| The bathing beach is smooth and sandy
and bathing is perfectly safe, the slope
being very gradual The temperature of
the water over 20 degrees. makes bathing
delightful The beach has been leased
to a responsible party for long term.
and an up-to-date bathing pavilion with
all modern conveniencesp has beer,
erected on the very edge of the water. 4
driveway has been constructed II tile
pavilion. These improvements will add
greatly 70 the comfort and pleasure of
those who enjoy bathing. Within
three minutes walk of the hotel are fire
accommodations Tor either hot Or cold