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Around the Horn. The Massachusetts mainlanders who settled Nantucket in the late 1600s, Stackpole believes, had little other choice of occupation. Their small island was hardly suitable for much farming, whereas whale oil could be a rich cash crop...
Professor John Lighten Synge (rhymes with ring) is a bald-domed, red-mustached Irishman whose English ancestors moved to the ould sod so long ago (1600s) that Red Hugh himself ought to forgive him their origin. For 22 years, off & on, he has taught physics and mathematics in the U.S. and Canada, long enough for his speech to lose all but a touch of brogue. But in his new book, Science-Sense and Nonsense (Norton; $2.75), he shows that he has hung on to more than his share of native wit and irreverence-qualities that made his playwright uncle, John...
...early 1600s, a certain gentleman of Jamestown murdered his wife, cut her in pieces and later "was burned for his horrible villainy." In Carolina, a horn snake struck at a small locust tree the thickness of a man's arm, and six hours later the tree was dead. Farther north, some Indians buried a white man, standing, with only his head above ground, scalped him and lit a fire close by. The heat made his brains boil and started his eyes gushing out of their sockets. In Casco Bay, Me., a merman tried to board a hunter...