NANTUCKET. 



How to Get There and What to See There. 



Notwithstanding all that has been written and 

 said of this island, there are, strange as it may seem, 

 many persons living in these United States, in this 

 nineteenth century, who have never heard of Nan- 

 tucket. Nantucket is a little island, about fourteen 

 miles long, lying away out at sea thirty miles from the 

 main; it belongs to the State of Massachusetts, is but 

 little over a hundred miles from Boston, can be reached 

 by steamer twice a day during the summer, and is rap- 

 idly becoming one of the most celebrated watering- 

 places in the country. Its climate is very even, mala- 

 ria entirely unknown, and the resident physicians agree 

 in saying that during the summer months no better 

 place for consumptives can be found. 



Nantucket was at one time the largest whaling port 

 in the world, owning over three hundred vessels of all 

 kinds. If one desires to go to Nantucket, — upon 

 arrival at Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, or Bos- 

 ton, — a " railway guide " should be consulted in order 

 to see what connections can be made with the Old 

 Colony Bailroad of Boston, that company controlling 

 the regular direct approach to the island, except in the 

 case of excursions that are frequently organized by 



