BRANT POINT. — BRIC A-BRAC. 57 



French enthusiasm rushed into the swamps after plants 

 and flowers, regardless of the risk of soiling his white 

 silk stockings and smallclothes. DeMarsellac pro- 

 nounced Nantucket * a garden of plants.' " 



Mr Folger again says : — 



u The following statement is from private papers 

 left by the late Obed M.aey, author of the History of 

 Nantucket, — and I think in other parts of the island 

 iron ore may be found : i About a quarter of mile to the 

 northeast of the eastern part of Gibbs's Swamp is a 

 place of iron ore, some of which has been dug and 

 smelted, and found to be good.'" 



And again : " Peat was found in abundance upon the 

 island." 



Brant Point. 



See also Lighthouses. 



This is a sandy point of land which helps form the 

 harbor of Nantucket. There is a lighthouse upon it, 

 and shipbuilding was carried on here in former years. 



(See page 214.) 



Brioa-Brac. 



Until within a very few years, Nantucket was rich in 

 old crockery, clocks, furniture, shells, and curiosities 

 of all kinds that had come from " over the sea." 

 There is still considerable of it left; but when one wants 

 a history to what one buys, — well, the dealers here are 

 just as honest as elsewhere, and stories, like goods, can 

 be manufactured for the trade. An anecdote is re- 

 lated of a party who went into one of the stores in 

 town a few years since, where an assortment of bric-k- 

 brac was to be found, and selected a piece of crockery. 



