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Title: As To Buried Treasure and Storied Waters, Cliffs, And Mountains
Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Volume 9.
Author: Charles M. Skinner
Release Date: December 14, 2004 [EBook #6614]
Language: English
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MYTHS AND LEGENDS
OF
OUR OWN LAND
By
Charles M. Skinner
Vol. 9.
AS TO BURIED TREASURE
AND
STORIED WATERS, CLIFFS, AND MOUNTAINS
CONTENTS:
AS TO BURIED TREASURE
Kidd's Treasure
Other Buried Wealth
STORIED WATERS, CLIFFS, AND MOUNTAINS
Monsters and Sea-Serpents
Stone-Throwing Devils
Storied Springs
Lovers' Leaps
God on the Mountains
AS TO BURIED RICHES
KIDD'S TREASURE
Captain Kidd is the most ubiquitous gentleman in history. If his earnings
in the gentle craft of piracy were frugally husbanded, he has possibly
left some pots of money in holes in the ground between Key West and
Halifax. The belief that large deposits of gold were made at Gardiner's
Island, Dunderberg, Cro' Nest, New York City, Coney Island, Ipswich, the
marshes back of Boston, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Isles of Shoals, Money
Island, Ocean Beach, the Bahamas, the Florida Keys, and elsewhere has
caused reckless expenditure of actual wealth in recovering doubloons and
guineas that disappointed backers of these enterprises are beginning to
look upon--no, not to look upon, but to think about--as visionary. A hope
of getting something for nothing has been the impetus to these
industries, and interest in the subject is now and then revived by
reports of the discovery--usually by a farmer ploughing near the
shore--of an iron kettle with a handful of gold and silver coins in it,
the same having doubtless been buried for purposes o
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