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fish, surrounds her; underlying her seemingly sterile 

 soil are thousands of tons of peat and shells ; there is 

 iron ore, and it has been said there are indications of 

 petroleum on the island. No better combination for 

 agricultural purposes can be found than salt, lime, and 

 peat, and they are to be had for the asking. If the 

 people of this island would only profit by all this 

 wealth which a beneficent Creator has so bountifully 

 provided, another Eden could be made of what are 

 now bleak and barren wastes. Every kitchen vege- 

 table, all the cereals and fruits which she needs, can 

 and ought to be grown here ; every pound of beef, 

 mutton, and pork she consumes should be raised here; 

 and as for fish, the ocean swarms with them in untold 

 variety and numbers, and every pound of salt used in 

 their curing should be manufactured here. 



Nantucket has a good harbor, with one hundred 

 acres of anchorage ; a jetty is being built, behind 

 which ships can ride in safety; her climate is very even, 

 and there is no malaria; the heat of summer is always 

 tempered with cool and refreshing breezes, and her 

 winters are never as cold as those experienced on the 

 mainland ; there are men of brains here, there is 

 money : with all these advantages, why sit idle with 

 folded hands, mourning over glory departed? " Yet a 

 little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands 

 in sleep," and Nantucket will become so dead that the 

 last trump will fail to awaken her! 



Make her a watering-place, make her a manufactur- 

 ing town, make her an agricultural town, make her all 

 three, but in heaven's name make her something ! 

 You have it in your own hands to make her what she 

 can and should be. 



