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Excerpt from A New History of Old Salem and the Towns Adjacent: Viz; Danvers, Beverly, Marblehead and Lynn There was a great stir one afternoon, at the Cape. A youngster named Jabez Tilley had gone out to pick blackberries in the woods toward Manchester. After an absence of a couple of hours, he reappeared at the settlement, making headway with all the speed his duck-legs were capable of. His locomotive tune was pitched so high, that he pitched himself over the rocks, down into a salt-pau - for extensive salt-works were established at the Cape by the first comers - before he had power to bring up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.