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To the Library from Jeremiah Colburn of Boston ; F- 

 Bacheller of Lynn ; Charles F. Barnard of Boston ; David 

 Perkins ; Henry F. Shepard ; Mrs. B. Wheatland ; C. Foote ; 

 George C. Chase ; Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ence ; Maryland Historical Society ; C. B. Richardson of 

 New Xork ; Mrs. E. Barnard. 



To the Cabinets from Joseph G. Waters ; Mark Lowd ; 

 James M. Estes ; James R. Phelps ; G. J. P. Floyd of Tops- 

 field ; George H. Devereux ; John G. Felt ; R. H. Wheat- 

 land ; C. L. Peirson. 



Letters read from Maine Historical Society : Corporation 

 of Dartmouth College ; Trustees of Newburyport Public 

 Library ; C. J. P. Floyd of Topsfield ; J. Colburn of Bos- 

 ton ; J. H. Hickcox of Albany, N. Y.; Nathaniel Ingersoll ; 

 F. Bachcller of Lynn ; Henry R. Stiles of Woodbridge, N.J.; 

 R,. A. Fisher of New Haven ; S. P. Fowler of Danvers ; Cor- 

 poration of Bowdoin College. 



The Chair, in opening, said there were some matters of 

 curious interest to be rioted in regard to the place of to-day's 

 meeting. This section of the shore, from Kettle Cove on the 

 west t Fresh Water Cove on the east, and for a limited, 

 though rather uncertain distance inland, was marked as 

 if with some terrible malediction. The pasturage is good, 

 the land fertile, the air salubrious. Man enjoys himself 

 here, his horses and his poultry, his household animals, all 

 seem to thrive. The birds of the air and the fish in the sea 

 are undisturbed, but the poor cow, the ox and the sheep, are 

 cursed as with the finger of death. They cannot live here. 

 The hay grows bright and fair on these fields ; it is sold and 

 carried away to feed such animals, and no harm is known 

 to arise ; but one of these fated creatures cannot be kept on 

 these lands more than a few months at most, and often but 

 a few weeks. The breadth of Kettle Cove divides this 

 blighted spot from a better ; the sickening kine on this side 

 may look and low across to their kindred, grazing in sight 



