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tory prices are given on application to the proprietors, 

 either personally or by letter. Appended is a list ol 

 the hotels at Nantucket, with the names of the pro- 

 prietors : — 



Surfside Hotel, C. H. Moore, prop. 

 Nantucket Hotel, J. S. Doyle, prop. 

 Ocean House, Broad St., J. S. Doyle, prop. 

 Springfield House, No. Water St., A. S. Mowry,prop. 

 Sherburne House, Orange St., T. H. Soule, Jr., prop. 

 Bay View House, Orange St., J. S. Patterson, prop. 

 Veranda House, Chapman St., N. Chapman, prop. 

 American House, Orange St., W. C Bagley, prop. 

 Ocean View House, 'Sconset, L. S. Coffin, prop. 

 Atlantic House, 'Sconset, Eliza Chadwick, prop. 

 Wauwinet House, Wauwinet, A. W. N. Small, prop. 



Jail. 



So far as a jail is concerned, to Nantucket it is com- 

 paratively a useless affair. Few persons are ever con- 

 fined there (fifteen in ten years); and the offences 

 generally have been so slight that if the culprits had 

 been placed in somebody's cellar, with a boy to sit on 

 the door, the letter of the law would have been obeyed. 

 The story is told that many years since, when sheep 

 were allowed to roam at will around the streets of the 

 town, a person incarcerated in the jail sent word to 

 the selectmen that if they would not repair the jail so 

 that the sheep would be prevented from getting in, he 

 would get out! This jail is on Vestal Street. Daniel 

 Webster Folger is the keeper. 



Latitude and Longitude. 

 The island of Nantucket lies in north latitude 41° 

 15' 22"; in west longitude 70° 7' 56". 



