138 the island of nantucket. 



Districts. 

 The divisions of the town are called districts, instead 

 of wards. There are four of them, situated as follows: 

 All that part of the town lying north of Main and west 

 of Centre Streets is called District No. 1; all north 

 of Main and east of Centre Streets, District No. 2 ; 

 all south of Main and east of Orange Streets, District 

 No. 3; all south of Main and west of Orange Streets, 

 District No. 4. 



Drives and Roads. 



The roads leading from the town are sandy and 

 deeply u rutted." But little care is taken of them. 

 Spasmodic efforts have at various times been made 

 to patch them up ; but they seem always to have been 

 in a state of chronic dilapidation. 



What Nantucket lacks in roads she makes up in her 

 agreeable, pleasing, and novel revelations in the way 

 of scenery. Perhaps one of the best drives is through 

 Pleasant Street and Atlantic Avenue; thence to South 

 Shore and Surf side. Prom there a drive to 'Sconset 

 along the bank — taking in Tom Never's Head on the 

 way — will give one of the grandest views of the ocean 

 that can be imagined. The undulating moors on one 

 side of you, with their ever varying, always pleasing 

 variety of coloring in the way of beautiful wild flowers 

 that grow in such wonderful abundance on this seem- 

 ingly sterile island; the gentle breeze bringing to your 

 senses their grateful perfume, mingled with the invig- 

 orating fragrance of the pines and salt sea that rolls in 

 such magnificence on your other side, tossing aloft its 



