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D. P. Ives has also recently built a summer residence on 

 the margin of the pond. 



Humphrey's Pond was so named from John Humphrey, 

 who, in the early settlement of the country, received from 

 the king a grant of five hundred acres of land, which 

 included this sheet of water. Humphrey married a 

 daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and sister of the Lady 

 Arabella Johnson. Suntaug Lake is a later designation 

 for this pond, and one which is growing into common 

 use. The region about the pond is high land. The 

 pond itself has a small water-shed, and, as no stream 

 flows into it, it is believed to be supplied from springs. 

 The streams which flow from it, on either side, are 

 tributary to the Saugus and Ipswich rivers. Its high 

 position and the great purity of the water have combined 

 to cause the pond to be frequently spoken of as desirable 

 in supplying other and larger places with water for domes- 

 tic purposes, though as yet no steps have ever been taken 

 in this direction. There is an island in the pond, and 

 it is recorded that, in the early days of the settlement, 

 munitions were stored there "for the time of need." 



Robin's Rock, about half a mile from the hotel, is a 

 big rock with a hollow in the top, which is said always to 

 contain water. The ledge is granite, of very excellent 

 quality, and Prof. Hitchcock says it cannot be distin- 

 guished from that of Quincy. In August, 1840, a com- 

 pany was formed here for the purpose of working this 

 quarry ; but the transportation facilities not being all that 

 was desirable, the work was finally relinquished. Of late 

 another part of the quarry is being worked by parties 

 from Peabody, and there is no reason to doubt that event- 

 ually it will be worked quite extensively. 



Gen. Josiah Newhall, who is now in the neighborhood 

 of eighty, is a man of much activity, and retains the full 

 enjoyment of all his faculties. He moves about with the 



