Exactly what it sounds like:
and the world’s welfare at heart—people shun it without knowing exactly why.
Perhaps one reason—though it cann med strangers—is that the
natives are now repellently decad r along that path of
retrogression so common in many N rs. They have come to form
a race by themselves, with the we nd physical stigmata of
degeneracy and inbreeding. The av lligence is woefully low,
whilst their annals reek of overt (')-=-(') half-hidden murders,
incests, and deeds of almost unna __( " )__ perversity. The old gentry,
representing the two or three arm / _/'-----'\_ \ ich came from Salem in
1692, have kept somewhat above th _\\ \\ // //_ decay; though many branches
are sunk into the sordid populace >__)/_\---/_\(__< y their names remain as a
key to the origin they disgrace. ys and Bishops still send
their eldest sons to Harvard and Miskatonic, though those sons seldom return to
the mouldering gambrel roofs under which they and their ancestors were born.
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