SEAWEEDS

FROM THE

SHORES OF NANTUCKET.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

1853.

LOAN STACK

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON,

No. 22, SCHOOL STREET.

PREFACE.

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BUT few of the articles composing this little collection were intended to meet the public eye. The greater part are the productions of youth, and were written merely for the amusement of the passing hour; but application having been made to the writers (or, where this could not be done, to their immediate friends) to allow them to appear in print, permission has been kindly granted.

The contributors are natives of Nantucket; and that this volume may serve as a memento of them, and, as such, possess an interest for their friends, is all that is expected.

NANTUCKET, FEBRUARY, 1853.

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