Chapter D: Sand Dunes

The long line of dune beaches, collectively called Duxbury Beach,
connecting Brant and Gurnet points.

E. SHOALS

A prominent feature of this part of Plymouth Harbor and of Duxbury
Bay. As Champlain states, they are largely bare at low tide.

F. WIGWAMS WHERE THE INDIANS CULTIVATE THE LAND

A number are situated on the slope where now stands the historic
city of Plymouth founded by the Pilgrim Fathers fifteen years after
this visit of Champlain.

G. THE SPOT WHERE WE RAN OUR PINNACE AGROUND

Browns Bank, still an impediment to the navigation of the harbor.
Apparently it was while their pinnace was aground that Champlain
landed on the north end of Long Beach, where he sketched this map.

H. A KIND OF ISLAND COVERED WITH TREES, AND CONNECTED WITH THE SAND
DUNES

The Gurnet, a low-swelling upland island, ending in a low bluff;
it is largely bare of trees and occupied by a group of buildings
belonging to the light station. It was thickly wooded when the
Pilgrim Fathers settled here in 1620. Slafter’s contention that
this was Saquish Head he later abandoned.