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Updated: May 8, 2025
It was the sound of voices that now made us turn and look the other way. Many people were following the crook in our road, passing through the bit of woodland and coming out at "Friggett Landing." We had heard no "musical note," but evidently the townspeople had; and there, surely enough, was a queer little vessel stopping right where we had marked the spot.
Not by guesswork, but by a long string, did we locate "Friggett Landing." When the string ran out, the rowboat was opposite a point on the marshy edge of the island about one hundred feet below the present-day road. The correctness of our work was at once evident.
To be sure, our maps showed us that in colonial times too a road had crossed the island, and along much the same lines; but it had come out a little farther down Back River, at the point already referred to as "Friggett Landing." To put the roadway right, then, we had first to locate the site of the old landing. And in this important matter what painstaking archeologists we were!
Indeed, we were expecting to come soon to the wooded rise of land once called "Pyping Point," where of old a boat in passing would sound "a musical note" to apprise the townspeople of its coming. And but a little way beyond that again, near the present-day bridge where we expected to stop, we should find the site of the ancient landing-place which was called "Friggett Landing."
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