| Old Plymouth Trails Contributor(s): Packard, Winthrop (Author) |
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ISBN: 151866489X ISBN-13: 9781518664892 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.56 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed." So sang Felicia D. Hemans in the early years of the last century and she has been much derided by the thoughtless and irreverent who have said that the landing of the Pilgrims was not on a stern and rock-bound coast. Such scoffers evidently never sailed in by White Horse beach and "Hither Manomet" when a winter northeaster was shouldering the deep sea tides up against the cliff and a surly gale snatched the foam from high-crested waves and sent it singing and stinging inland. Could they have done this it would have been easy to understand that the coast here is stern and rock-bound in very truth. The rocks are not those of solid granite ledges, continuous portions of the great earth's lithosphere of which the coast is built farther north, at Scituate, Nahant, Rockport and farther on; but it is rock-bound with massed granite boulders, glacier rounded, water-worn, but inexpressibly stern. |