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parently fed by underground springs, 

 with shores and bottoms of white sand. 

 Camping permitted. 200-300 ft. 



From Plymouth about 3 mi. — Division 

 of Forestry. 



*Sandwich Stale Forest. (G7.) In 

 Bourne and Sandwich, of 073 acres of 

 very sandy land, for the most part 

 burned over and grown up to scrub oak 

 and pitch pine. 100-200 ft. Slightly 

 rolling. 



From Boston 56 mi. south, N. Y., 

 N. H. and H. R. R. 



*Marlha's Vineyard State Reservation. 

 In Edgartown, 601 acres of scrub growth, 

 controlled by the Department of Con- 

 servation. The heath hen is endemic. 



*Province Lands. In Provincetown, 

 at the tip of Cape Cod. 3900 acres of 

 eastern conifer forest, sandy shore, 

 swamps, and sand dunes. The Massa- 

 chusetts Forestry Association is doing a 

 good deal of planting on the dunes as an 

 experiment in reclamation of unprofit- 

 able land, but many acres will probably 

 remain for a long time in a natural 

 condition. 



Small Public Reservations 



These reservations are gifts, held in 

 trust by a corporation, named Trustees 

 of Public Reservations, whose purpose 

 it is to acquire and maintain for the 

 public, beautiful and historical places 

 within the Commonwealth. All are 

 heavily wooded with the exception of 

 Governor Hutchinson's Field. 



Monument Mountain Reservation. 260 

 acres in Great Barrington. 



Pine Knoll, 6 acres in Sheffield. 



Petticoat Hill, 50 acres in Williams- 

 burg. 



Rocky Narrows, 21 acres in Sherborn. 



Mount Ann Park, 50 acres in 

 Gloucester. 



Virginia Wood, 139 acres in Stone- 

 ham. Systematic work in forestry car- 

 ried on by the Metropolitan Park 

 Commission. Now part of Middlesex 

 County Reservation. 



Governor Hutchinson's Field. 10 acres 

 in Milton. Some work in forestry car- 

 ried on. 



Reservations of the Appalachian Mountain 

 Club 



The Club owns 16 parcels of land, 3 of 

 them in Massachusetts, managed by a 



board of Trustees of Real Estate. They 

 are held in trust for the public. 



Parsons Reservation. (C3,) 40 acres 

 on Mt. Grace in Warwick; upon an 

 eminence locally known as Bennett's 

 Knob. The view includes Wachusett, 

 Greylock, and other mountains in 

 Massachusetts; the Monadnocks just 

 over the line in New Hampshire; the 

 Green Mountains in Vermont; and the 

 Adirondacks in New York. The reser- 

 vation is largely wooded, with a mixed 

 growth of good quality and middle age. 

 1490 ft. Sharp. 



From Athol about 13 mi. N.W.—H. N. 

 Shepard, Chairman. 



Carlisle Pines Reservation. (F6.) 20 

 acres in the town of Carlisle. This 

 reservation is notable for its 100 great 

 white pines, 2^ to 3| ft. in diameter and 

 100 to 120 ft. tall, as large and as fine as 

 New England can produce. The hard- 

 wood trees have been cut to give promi- 

 nence to the big pines, and to render pos- 

 sible the growth of others, and especially 

 to deprive the, gypsy moth of food. 

 Elevation 200 ft. 



From Boston about 20 mi, N. W. — 

 H. N. Shepard. 



Gilson Hill Reservation. In Billerica, 

 includes about 9 acres upon the summit 

 of the hill, and about 15 acres in the con- 

 necting wood-roads. It is one of the 

 best view-points in Middlesex County, 

 commanding Wachusett, the Monad- 

 nocks, Joe English Hill, and a broad 

 sweep eastward to the sea. At the foot 

 of the hill is a spring, near which an 

 early settler, Gilson, built his home. 



From Boston about 25 mi. N. W. — H. 

 N. Shepard. 



Moose Hill Sanctuary, Sharon, Mass. 

 19 mi. from Boston, on the N. Y. N. H. & 

 H. Railroad. Located mi. west of 

 Sharon station. A tract of 235 acres for 

 bird and flower protection and super- 

 vised jointly by the Massachusetts 

 Audubon Society and the Society for the 

 Protection of native New England 

 plants. (Bibliography: S. P. N. E. P. 

 Leaflet 32: 1920.) 



Areas proposed {Massachusetts) 



1. 3 acres sand area with bogs, sandy, 

 rocky shore, and dunes. Located in 

 Essex County, 5 mi. from Ipswich, 

 Mass. Preserved privately by R. T. 

 Crane. — Laetitia H. Snow. 



2. Plum Island. A narrow island, 

 about 8 mi. long, lying parallel to the 

 coast, near Ipswich, Mass. — R. T. 

 Fisher. 



