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brought the party to the Flatts and the hotel. The Flatts village (Fig. 

 13) centers at the cross-roads near the bridge which spans the narrow 

 passage from the Inlet into Harrington Sound. It contains the hotel, 

 the post office, a half-dozen shops, and one or two scores of dwellings, 

 which range in size and attractiveness from ' Palmetto Grove,' the home 

 of Archdeacon Tucker, to the twenty-foot cottage of the unambitious 

 colored family. On nearing the Flatts the north road runs along the 

 hillside that rises to the south of the Inlet, gradually descending 

 to sea level, at the corners, where it meets the middle road. The cot- 

 tages are scattered over this hillside, which looks out on Harrington 



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Fig. 14. View of Hotel ' Frascati,' Looking out through the Inlet. 



Albert Mann. 



Photograph by 



Sound and affords at many spots beautiful views of that land-locked sea 

 and the wooded heights beyond. The hotel (Fig. 14) is located on a low 

 projection of land that makes out into the Inlet from its south shore 

 and commands on one side a view of the sea (Fig. 15), on the other a 

 view into Harrington Sound. It consists of half a dozen buildings ; two 

 of stone (one built as a residence many years ago) placed gable to gable 

 and facing the water; a much newer wooden structure, which, with 

 its broad piazza, projects out over the clear waters of the Inlet; the 

 kitchens and a storehouse behind the older buildings; and, lastly, a 

 new stone building some forty feet square located back of the wooden 



