270 THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET. 



In summing up the resources of the island, we find 

 that many varieties of fish can be and are caught in 

 large quantities. Salt and lime can be" manufactured 

 successfully. Apple, peach, pear, and quince trees 

 and grapevines only need care to produce as fine fruit 

 as any on the main. All the common garden vegeta- 

 bles and cereals yield abundantly. Oysters were once 

 found here in large quantities, and should again be in- 

 troduced and propagated. The compiler is informed 

 that the manufacturing of bricks was at one time car- 

 ried on quite extensively at the Cliif and in " Egypt," 

 and of course can be again. Forest trees once grew on 

 the island, and could be made to grow again. Horses, 

 cattle, and sheep can be as successfully bred here as 

 anywhere else. Manufacturing ought to be as profit- 

 ably carried on here as elsewhere. And certainly the 

 island possesses many advantages for a watering place. 



All Nantucket to-day needs is a little of the old 

 leaven; or rather a little neio, for the old has long since 

 lost its power. 



The Nantucket Improvement and Industrial Asso- 

 ciation have issued a circular which the compiler sin- 

 cerely hopes will reach every business man in the 

 country, and in order that it may reach more than it 

 otherwise would, part of it is here inserted. 



Within a few years Nantucket has been a popular summer 

 resort, and as its advantages are better known, will become still 

 more popular; for no other place in the country offers more 

 beautiful sites for summer dwellings, or a more healthful atmos- 

 phere for a large class of invalids. Surrounded by the ocean, 

 the nights are always cool; sleep is refreshing; the vitiated 

 appetite becomes healthy, and constitutions worn down by 



