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Title: The Old Coast Road
From Boston to Plymouth

Author: Agnes Rothery

Release Date: June 21, 2007 [eBook #21895]

Language: English

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THE OLD COAST ROAD

From Boston to Plymouth

by

AGNES EDWARDS

With Illustrations by Louis H. Ruyl

[Illustration]

Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1920

Copyright, 1920, by Agnes Edwards Pratt
All Rights Reserved

[Illustration]

THE OLD COAST ROAD

_From Boston to Plymouth_

CONTENTS

BOSTON: A FOREWORD ix

I. DORCHESTER HEIGHTS AND THE OLD COAST
ROAD 1

II. MILTON AND THE BLUE HILLS 19

III. SHIPBUILDING AT QUINCY 35

IV. THE ROMANCE OF WEYMOUTH 57

V. ECCLESIASTICAL HINGHAM 75

VI. COHASSET LEDGES AND MARSHES 92

VII. THE SCITUATE SHORE 111

VIII. MARSHFIELD, THE HOME OF DANIEL WEBSTER 123

IX. DUXBURY HOMES 142

X. KINGSTON AND ITS MANUSCRIPTS 157

XI. PLYMOUTH 175

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