Captain Zeb took him up into what he called his "cupoler," the observatory on the top of the house, and showed him Trumet spread out like a map.

The main road was north and south, winding and twisting its rutted, sandy way.

Along it were clustered the principal houses and shops, shaded by silver-leaf poplars, a few elms, and some willows and spruces.

Each tree bent slightly away from the northeast, the direction from which blew the heavy winter gales.

Beyond the main road were green slopes and pastures, with swamps in the hollows, swamps which were to be cranberry bogs in the days to come.