6 THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET. 



from every nook and cranny of the world. Mrs. Eliza 

 Ann McCleave has also a large collection of beautiful 

 shells and curious things; and perhaps the estimable 

 and kindly lady herself is the most quaint and curious 

 of them all, — a veritable " Mrs. Jarley." She is always 

 genial and affable, and you come away from her quiet 

 little home pleased, amused, and instructed. Then 

 there are Walter Folger's astronomical clock ; the 

 United States Life Saving Station ; the rooms of the 

 Massachusetts Humane Society ; the site of Thomas 

 Macy's house ; John Gardner's grave ; the different 

 cemeteries ; the " Old House" and " Old Mill"; the 

 rt Old Spanish Bell "; the new town clock •, " Eat-fire 

 Spring," and Quaise, celebrated in Col. Hart's " Mir- 

 iam Coffin "; Sancoty Head Lighthouse and Sconset ; 

 Surfside; " Sunset Heights"; " Sherburne Bluffs," 

 and the cliff ; Tuckernuck; Wauwinet ; South Shore ; 

 the "Tower"; the Tourists' Registry Agency; the 

 "Clean Shore " and Cliff bathing-houses ; the " Cap- 

 tain's Room," once the celebrated Wm. Rotch's 

 warehouse, — all these and many more to be visited. 



Among many other curious and rare objects of in- 

 terest to be found here is a small wax figure of an 

 infant, which was brought to this country in 1786 by 

 Jon. Coffin, and has been in the possession of its pres- 

 ent owners for forty years. There is no doubt that 

 this wax figure is the likeness of the Dauphin of 

 France, — Louis Charles, the second son of Louis 

 XVI. and Marie Antoinette, and rightfully Louis 

 XVII. 



About the life of this young prince there has always 

 hung a cloud of mystery : many persons believing 



