"...a long, monotonous stretch of open shore country."

"Out the window I could see the blue water and the sandy line of Plum Island..." -- The Shadow Over Innsmouth

"At the junction where the main highway runs inland and avoids Innsmouth, I was half-afraid my driver would take the bleak shore road that goes through that damnable place. He did not, however, but darted rapidly past Rowley and Ipswich toward our destination." -- The Thing on the Doorstep