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Figure 97. Das Bar re 'b 1764 chart of Nauset Spit (courtesy Atheneusn) 

 Library of Boston). 



The next significant map of Kauset Spit is the first U.S. Coast Survey sap 

 made in 1356 (Tig. 98). The inlet into Mauoet Harbor had saigrated to the 

 south naar JteuEat Heights by this tias, and the aouth spit had bean cosple^aly 

 eroded. The large salt marsh ia Nauset Harbor was wall de^alopad with ek?s£ of 

 the present features easily identifiable. As the northern rpit est®uded to 

 the south in a i&ore landward position, a large Earsh island became fused to 

 the spit, separated by nandflats covered only during very high tides. The 

 channel into Nau.se t Harbor had beea diverted far to the south. 



c. North 5sach. The first description of the North Beach section of the 

 Naueet Spit ays tea was written in 1C-02 by Archer, a aesaber of Gosnold'a crew 

 on an exploratory voyage (Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, 1843). 



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