light-house, which glass requires to be 

 often cleaned on the outside : — Te(Uous 

 service in cold weather and not so com- 

 monly necessary in any other place in 

 the ^lassachusetts, nor in any of the 

 New England States. 



"The Spring of water in the edge of 

 the clifts. by means of their late caving 

 has become useless. I cart the water 

 used in my family more than half a mile, 

 necessarily keep a draught horse and 

 carriage for that purpose and frequently 

 have to travel in a hilly common extend- 

 ing five miles to find the horse. Truely 

 I catch some rainwater and it is as true 

 that many times I empty it coloured as 

 red as blood with oker blown from the 

 clifts. 



"My firewood is brought from the 

 ^lainland and. there being neither har- 

 bor nor wharf here, is more expensive 

 than in seaports. Keepers in some places 

 get their wood with little cost ; but here 

 the native Indians watch the shores to 

 take all drifts. 



''The lately constructed light with a 

 stone revolves by a clock which is to be 

 stopj)ed every time anything is done to 

 the fire, which, in cold weather, must be 

 kindled the sun an hour high, or sooner, 

 and recruited until eleven o'clock, or 

 after, when I have to trim the lamps and 

 wind up the weights of the clock and 

 can go into bed at nearly midnight until 

 which a fire is kept in the dwelling-house 

 consuming more wood than when I 

 tended the former light. 



"It is about eight miles from here to a 

 gristmill and in the common way of pass- 

 ing are creeks not fordable at all seasons. 

 "The business respecting the light is, 

 mostly, done by me in person, yet I oc- 

 casionally leave home to procure wood 

 and many other necessaries ; previous to 

 which I have to agree with and instruct 

 some trusty white person to tend the 

 light in my absence : If my salary would 

 admit I would hire some person to live 

 constantly with me lest I should be sick — 

 I have no neighbors here but Indians or 

 peoi)le of colour. 



"Tending the former light might be 

 deemed a simple business if compar'd 

 with the tendance of the present compli- 

 cated works and machinery, which re- 

 quires much time care &c. 



"Almost any man or lad under my 

 wife's care could light the former lamp 



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sToxn; lighthousp: 



Showing the foundation, dovetaihng of 

 and interior arrangement 



KDDV- 



stones. 



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