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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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of the scene continually varies, even while its gen-eral features are almost monotonously the same. A boat on the beach, half buried inencroaching sand; a mass of remains of wrecked vessels, such as Mr. Fenn graphicallycalls The Graveyard; a gnarled, wind-beaten tree on the hills; changing groups ofcattle, among which occasionally appear drovers or herdsmen on horseback ; vesselsappearing and disappearing in the horizon of the sea—these make up the changes of thepicture, and, simple as they are, give abundant pleasure to the wayfarer. At last, Montauk Point is reached. This is a bold, solitary point of land, composedof sand, bowlders, and pebbles, with far stretches of sea on three of its sides. Thestorms here are grand, the wide Atlantic rolling in with unbroken force upon the shores.On the extreme point stands a tall, white light-house, erected in 1795, and one of thebest-known lights of the coast. Mrs. Sigourney, while on a visit to the Point, in 1837,wrote the followinsf lines:
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CRIST AAIND-MILLS AT EAST HAMPTON. 258 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. Ultima Thule of this ancient isle,Against whose heart the everlasting surge,Long travelling on, and ominous of wrath.Forever beats! Thou liftst an eye of lightUnto the vexed and storm-tossed mariner.Guiding him safely to his home again.So teach us, mid our sorest ills, to wearThe crown of mercy, and, with changeless eye,Look up to heaven. Eastern Long Island is undergoing many physical changes. In reports made to theState Legislature by W. W. Mather, more than thirty years ago, we find a full and in-

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