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 | | Through the cen- turies of the glacial period, the drift of which their land is composed, consist- ing of sand, gravel, and bowlders, was scraped from north- ern New England and deposited in the sea or in visible moraines on a scale which the imagina- tion fails to con- ceive. |
| | In his Letter is found England sailed for North Virginia a glowing account of a certain fine bay on the 26th of March, 1602, with a com- and port where he stayed fifteen days pany, all told, of thirty-two, twenty in- refitting his ship, and where he ohserved tending to remain as colonists. |
| | Still, New Bed- ford ranks to-day first in the xvorld in whaling-products, having an annual catch from about seventy vessels of $r,ooo,ooo to $r,500,OOO indeed a great reduction from the maximum of $6,178,728 thirty- five years ago, when three hundred and twenty-nine vessels were engaged. |
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