Nooks And Corners Of The New England Coast - free ebook by Samuel Adams Drake

CHAPTER I. NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS.

Norumbega River and City.—Early Discoverers, and Maps of New England.—Mode of taking Possession of new Countries.—Cruel Usage of Intruders by the English.—Penobscot Bay.—Character of first Emigrants to New England.—Is Friday unlucky?...

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CHAPTER II. MOUNT DESERT ISLAND.

About Islands.—Champlain's Discovery.—Mount Desert Range.—Somesville, and the Neighborhood.—Colony of Madame De Guercheville.—Descent of Sir S. Argall.—Treasure-trove.—Shell-heaps.—South-west Harbor.—The natural Sea-wall.—Islands off Somes's Sound...

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CHAPTER III. CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT.

Excursion to Bar Harbor.—Green Mountain.—Eagle Lake.—Island Nomenclature.—Porcupine Islands.—Short Jaunts by the Shore.—Schooner Head.—Spouting Caves.—Sea Aquaria.—Audubon and Agassiz.—David Wasgatt Clark.—F. E. Church and the Artists.—Great Head.—Baye Françoise.—Mount Desert Rock.—Value of natural Sea-marks.—Newport Mountain, and the Way to Otter Creek.—The Islesmen.—North-east Harbor.—The Ovens.—The Gregoires.—Henrietta d'Orleans.—Yankee Curiosity...

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CHAPTER IV. CASTINE.

Pentagoët.—A Fog in Penobscot Bay.—Rockland.—The Muscongus Grant.—Colonial Society.—Generals Knox and Lincoln.—Camden Hills.—Belfast and the River Penobscot.—Brigadier's Island.—Disappearance of the Salmon.—Approach to Castine.—Fort George.—Penobscot Expedition.—Sir John Moore.—Capture of General Wadsworth.—His remarkable Escape.—Rochambeau's Proposal.—La Peyrouse...

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CHAPTER V. CASTINE—continued.

Old Fort Pentagoët.—Stephen Grindle's Windfall.—Cob-money.—The Pilgrims at Penobscot.—Isaac de Razilly.—D'Aulnay Charnisay.—La Tour.—Descent of Sedgwick and Leverett.—Capture of Pentagoët, and Imprisonment of Chambly.—Colbert.—Baron Castin.—The younger Castin kidnaped.—Capuchins and Jesuits.—Intrigues of De Maintenon and Père Lachaise.—Burial-ground of Castine.—About the Lobster.—Where is Down East?...

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CHAPTER VI. PEMAQUID POINT.

New Harbor.—Wayside Manners.—British Repulse at New Harbor.—Porgee Factory.—Process of converting the Fish into Oil.—Habits of the Mackerel.—Weymouth's Visit to Pemaquid.—Champlain again.—Popham Colony.—Cotton Mather on new Settlements.—English vs. French Endurance.—L'Ordre de Bon Temps.—Samoset.—Fort Frederick.—Résumé of the English Settlement and Forts.—John Nelson.—Capture of Fort William Henry.—D'Iberville, the knowing One.—Colonel Dunbar at Pemaquid.—Shell-heaps of Damariscotta.—Disappearan

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CHAPTER VII. MONHEGAN ISLAND.

Scenes on a Penobscot Steamer.—The Islanders.—Weymouth's Anchorage.—Monhegan described.—Combat between the Enterprise and Boxer .—Lieutenant Burrows...

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CHAPTER VIII. FROM WELLS TO OLD YORK.

Wells.—John Wheelwright.—George Burroughs.—On the Beach.—Shiftings of the Sands.—What they produce.—Ingenuity of the Crow.—The Beach as a High-road.—Popular Superstitions.—Ogunquit.—Bald Head Cliff.—Wreck of the Isidore .—Kennebunkport.—Cape Neddock.—The Nubble.—Captains Gosnold and Pring.—Moon-light on the Beach...

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CHAPTER IX. AGAMENTICUS, THE ANCIENT CITY.

Mount Agamenticus.—Basque Fishermen.—Sassafras.—The Long Sands.—Sea-weed and Shell-fish.—Foot-prints.—Old York Annals.—Sir Ferdinando Gorges.—York Meeting-house.—Handkerchief Moody.—Parson Moody.—David Sewall.—Old Jail.—Garrison Houses, Scotland Parish...

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CHAPTER X. AT KITTERY POINT, MAINE.

York Bridge.—Poor Sally Cutts.—Fort M'Clary.—Sir William Pepperell.—Louisburg and Fontenoy.—Gerrish's Island.—Francis Champernowne.—Islands belonging to Kittery.—John Langdon.—Jacob Sheaffe.—Washington at Kittery...

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CHAPTER XI. THE ISLES OF SHOALS.

De Monts sees them.—Smith's and Levett's Account.—Cod-fishery in the sixteenth Century.—Sail down the Piscataqua.—The Isles.—Derivation of the Name.—Jeffrey's Ledge.—Star Island.—Little Meeting-house.—Character of the Islesmen.—Island Grave-yards.—Betty Moody's Hole.—Natural Gorges.—Under the Cliffs.—Death of Miss Underhill.—Story of her Life.—Boon Island.—Wreck of the Nottingham .—Fish and Fishermen....

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CHAPTER XII. THE ISLES OF SHOALS—continued.

Excursion to Smutty Nose.—Piracy in New England Waters.—Blackbeard.—Thomas Morton's Banishment.—Religious Liberty vs. License.—Custom of the May-pole.—Samuel Haley.—Spanish Wreck on Smutty Nose.—Graves of the Unknown.—Terrible Tragedy on the Island.—Appledore.—Its ancient Settlement.—Smith's Cairn.—Duck Island.—Londoner's.—Thomas B. Laighton.—Mrs. Thaxter.—Light-houses in 1793.—White Island.—Story of a Wreck....

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CHAPTER XIII. NEWCASTLE AND NEIGHBORHOOD.

The Way to the Island.—The Pool.—Ancient Ships.—Old House.—Town Charter and Records.—Influence of the Navy-yard.—Fort Constitution.—Little Harbor.—Captain John Mason.—The Wentworth House.—The Portraits.—The Governors Wentworth and their Wives.—Baron Steuben....

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CHAPTER XIV. SALEM VILLAGE, AND '92.

The Witch-ground.—Antiquity of Witchcraft.—First Case in New England.—Curiosities of Witchcraft.—Rebecca Nurse.—Beginning of Terrorism at Salem Village.—Humors of the Apparitions.—General Putnam's Birthplace.—What may be seen in Danvers....

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CHAPTER XV. A WALK TO WITCH HILL.

Salem in 1692.—Birthplace of Hawthorne.—Old Witch House.—William Stoughton, Governor.—Witch Hill.—A Leaf from History....

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CHAPTER XVI. MARBLEHEAD.

The Rock of Marblehead.—The Harbor and Neck.—Chat with the Light-keeper.—Decline of the Fisheries.—Fishery in the olden Time.—Early Annals of Marblehead.—Walks about the Town.—Crooked Lanes and antique Houses.—The Water-side.—The Fishermen.—How the Town looked in the Past.—Plain-spoken Clergymen and lawless Parishioners.—Anecdotes.—Jeremiah Lee and his Mansion.—The Town-house.—Chief-justice Story.—St. Michael's Church.—Elbridge Gerry.—The old Ironsides of the Sea.—General John Glover.—Flood Ires

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CHAPTER XVII. PLYMOUTH.

At the American Mecca.—Court Street.—Pilgrim Hall and Pilgrim Memorials.—Sargent's Picture of the "Landing."—Relics of the Mayflower .—First Duel in New England.—Old Colony Seal.—The "Compact."—First Execution in Plymouth.—Old "Body of Laws."—Pilgrim Chronicles.—View from Burial Hill.—The Harbor.—Names of Plymouth.—Plymouth, England.—Lord Nelson's Generosity.—Plymouth the temporary Choice of the Pilgrims.—The Indian Plague.—Indian Superstition.—Who was first at Plymouth?—De Monts and Champlain.—

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CHAPTER XVIII. PLYMOUTH, CLARK'S ISLAND, AND DUXBURY.

Let us walk in Leyden Street.—The way Plymouth was built.—Governor Bradford's Corner.—Fragments of Family History.—How Marriage became a civil Act.—The Common-house.—John Oldham's Punishment.—The Allyne House.—James Otis and his Sister Mercy.—James Warren.—Cole's Hill, and its obliterated Graves.—Plymouth Rock.—True Date of the "Landing."—Christmas in Plymouth, and Bradford's Joke.—Pilgrim Toleration.—Samoset surprises Plymouth.—The Entry of Massasoit.—First American Congress.—To Clark's Island.

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CHAPTER XIX. PROVINCETOWN.

Cape Cod a Terra incognita .—Appearance of its Surface.—Historical Fragments.—The Pilgrims' first Landing.—New England Washing-day.—De Poutrincourt's Fight with Natives.—Provincetown described.—Cape Names.—Portuguese Colony.—Cod and Mackerel Fishery.—Cod-fish Aristocracy.—Matt Prior and Lent.—Beginning of Whaling.—Mad Montague.—The Desert.—Cranberry Culture.—The moving Sand-hills.—Disappearance of ancient Forests.—The Beach.—Race Point.—Huts of Refuge.—Ice Blockade of 1874-'75.—Wreck of the Giov

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CHAPTER XX. NANTUCKET.

The old Voyagers again.—Derivation of the Name of Nantucket.—Sail from Wood's Hole to the Island.—Vineyard Sound.—Walks in Nantucket Streets.—Whales, Ships, and Whaling.—Nantucket in the Revolution.—Cruising for Whales.—The Camels.—Nantucket Sailors.—Loss of Ship Essex .—Town-crier.—Island History.—Quaker Sailors.—Thomas Mayhew.—Spermaceti.—Macy, Folger, Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin....

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CHAPTER XXI. NANTUCKET—continued.

Taking Blackfish.—Blue-fishing at the Opening.—Walk to Coatue.—The Scallop-shell.—Structure of the Island.—Indian Legends.—Shepherd Life.—Absolutism of Indian Sagamores.—Wasting of the Shores of the Island.—Siasconset.—Nantucket Carts.—Fishing-stages.—The Great South Shoal.—Sankoty Light.—Surfside....

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CHAPTER XXII. NEWPORT OF AQUIDNECK.

General View of Newport.—Sail up the Harbor.—Commercial Decadence.—Street Rambles.—William Coddington.—Anne Hutchinson.—The Wantons.—Newport Artillery.—State-house Notes.—Tristram Burgess.—Jewish Cemetery and Synagogue.—Judah Touro.—Redwood Library.—The Old Stone Mill....

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CHAPTER XXIII. PICTURESQUE NEWPORT.

The Cliff Walk.—Newport Cottages and Cottage Life.—Charlotte Cushman.—Fort Day and Fort Adams.—Bernard, the Engineer.—Dumplings Fort.—Canonicut.—Hessians.—Newport Drives.—The Beaches.—Purgatory.—Dean Berkeley....

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CHAPTER XXIV. THE FRENCH AT NEWPORT.

Behavior of the Troops.—Monarchy aiding Democracy.—D'Estaing.—Jourdan.—French Camps.—Rochambeau, De Ternay, De Noailles.—Efforts of England to break the Alliance.—Frederick's Remark.—Malmesbury and Potemkin.—Lord North and Yorktown.—George III.—Biron, Duc de Lauzun.—Chastellux, De Castries, Vioménil, Lameth, Dumas, La Peyrouse, Berthier, and Deux-Ponts.—The Regiment Auvergne.—Latour D'Auvergne.—French Diplomacy....

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CHAPTER XXV. NEWPORT CEMETERIES.

Rhode Island Cemetery.—Curious Inscriptions.—William Ellery.—Oliver Hazard Perry.—The Quakers.—George Fox.—Quaker Persecution.—Other Grave-yards.—Lee and the Rhode Island Tories.—Coddington and Gorton.—John Coggeshall.—Trinity Church-yard.—Dr. Samuel Hopkins.—Gilbert Stuart....

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CHAPTER XXVI. TO MOUNT HOPE, AND BEYOND.

Walk up the Island.—"Tonomy" Hill.—The Malbones.—Capture of General Prescott.—Talbot's Exploit.—Ancient Stages.—Windmills.—About Fish.—Lawton's Valley.—Battle of 1778.—Island History.—Mount Hope.—Philip's Death.—Dighton Rock.—Indian Antiquities....

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CHAPTER XXVII. NEW LONDON AND NORWICH.

Entrance to the Thames.—Fisher's Island.—Block Island.—New London.—Light-ships and Light-houses.—Hempstead House.—Bishop Seabury.—Old Burial-ground.—New London Harbor.—The little Ship-destroyer.—Groton and Monument.—Arnold.—British Attack on Groton.—Fort Griswold.—The Pequots.—John Mason.—Silas Deane.—Beaumarchais.—John Ledyard.—Decatur and Hardy.—Norwich City.—The Yantic picturesque.—Uncas, the Mohegan Chieftain.—Norwich Town.—Fine old Trees.—The Huntingtons....

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CHAPTER XXVIII. SAYBROOK.

Old Saybrook.—Disappearance of the Yankee.—Old Girls.—Isaac Hull.—The Harts.—Connecticut River.—Old Fortress.—Dutch Courage.—The Pilgrims' Experiences.—Cromwell, Hampden, and Pym.—Lady Fenwick.—George Fenwick.—Lion Gardiner.—Old Burial-ground.—Yale College.—The Shore, and the End....

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NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS.

"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and with garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of Old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." Longfellow . In many respects the sea-coast of Maine is the most remarkable of New England. It is serrated w

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MOUNT DESERT ISLAND.

"There, gloomily against the sky, The Dark Isles rear their summits high; And Desert Rock, abrupt and bare, Lifts its gray turrets in the air." Whittier . Islands possess, of themselves, a magnetism not vouchsafed to any spot of the main-land. In cutting loose from the continent a feeling of freedom is at once experienced that comes spontaneously, and abides no longer than you remain an islander. You are conscious, in again setting foot on the main shore, of a change, which no analysis, however

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CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT.

"You should have seen that long hill-range, With gaps of brightness riven— How through each pass and hollow streamed The purpling light of heaven—" Whittier . Having broken the ice a little with the reader, I shall suppose him present on the most glorious Christmas morning a New England sun ever shone upon. "A green Christmas makes a fat church-yard," says an Old-country proverb; this was a white Noël , cloudless and bright. I saw that the peruke of my neighbor across the Sound, Sargent's Mounta

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CASTINE.

"A wind came up out of the sea, And said, 'O mists, make room for me.'" Longfellow . Whoever has turned over the pages of early New England history can not fail to have had his curiosity piqued by the relations of old French writers respecting this extreme outpost of French empire in America. The traditions of the existence of an ancient and populous city, going far beyond any English attempt in this corner of the continent, are of themselves sufficient to excite the ardent pursuit of an antiqua

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CASTINE—continued.

"Baron Castine of St. Castine Has left his château in the Pyrenees, And sailed across the western seas." Longfellow . I confess I would rather stand in presence of the Pyramids, or walk in the streets of buried Pompeii, than assist at the unwrapping of many fleshless bodies. No other medium than the material eye can grasp a fact with the same distinctness. It becomes rooted, and you may hang your legends or traditions on its branches. It is true there is a class who journey from Dan to Beersheba

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PEMAQUID POINT.

"Love thou thy land, with love far-brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro' future time by power of thought." Tennyson . A very small fraction of the people of New England, I venture to say, know more of Pemaquid than that such a place once existed somewhere within her limits; yet it is scarcely possible to take up a book on New England in which the name does not occur with a frequency that is of itself a spur to inquiry. If a few volumes be consulted,

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MONHEGAN ISLAND.

"From gray sea-fog, from icy drift, From peril and from pain, The home-bound fisher greets thy lights, Oh hundred-harbored Maine!" Whittier . The most famous island you can find on the New England map is Monhegan Island. To it the voyages of Weymouth, of Popham, and of Smith converge. The latter has put it down as one of the landmarks of our coast. Rosier calls it an excellent landfall. It is undoubtedly Monhegan that is seen on the oldest charts of New England. Champlain, with the same aptness

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FROM WELLS TO OLD YORK.

"A shipman was there, wonned far by west; For aught I wot, he was of Dartëmouth." Chaucer . One hot, slumberous morning in August I found myself in the town of Wells. I was traveling, as New England ought to be traversed by every young man of average health and active habits, on foot, and at leisure, along the beautiful road to Old York. Now Wells, as Victor Hugo says of a village in Brittany, is not a town, but a street, stretching for five or six miles along the shore, and everywhere commandin

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AGAMENTICUS, THE ANCIENT CITY.

"Land of the forest and the rock, Of dark-blue lake and mighty river, Of mountains reared aloft to mock The storm's career, the lightning's shock— My own green land forever." Whittier . Ho for Agamenticus! It is an old saying, attributed to the Iron Duke, that when a man wants to turn over it is time for him to turn out. As there are six good miles to get over to the mountain, and as many to return, I was early astir. The road is chiefly used by wood teams, and was well beaten to within half a m

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AT KITTERY POINT, MAINE.

"We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." Longfellow . Louis XV. said to Bouret, the financier, "You are indeed a singular person not to have seen Marly! Call upon me there, and I will show it to you." Our way lies from Old York to Kittery Point. [81] To get from the one to the other you must pass the bridge over York River, built in 1761. It inaugurated in New E

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THE ISLES OF SHOALS.

"O warning lights, burn bright and clear, Hither the storm comes! Leagues away It moans and thunders low and drear— Burn 'til the break of day!" Celia Thaxter ....

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THE ISLES OF SHOALS—continued.

"—There be land-rats and water-rats, water thieves and land thieves; I mean pirates."— Merchant of Venice. My next excursion was to Smutty Nose, or Haley's. Seen from Star Island it shows two eminences, with a little hamlet of four houses, all having their gable-ends toward the harbor, on the nearest rising ground. Round the south-west point of Smutty Nose is the little haven already alluded to in the previous chapter, made by building a causeway of stone over to Malaga, where formerly the sea r

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NEWCASTLE AND NEIGHBORHOOD.

"Yes—from the sepulchre we'll gather flowers, Then feast like spirits in their promised bowers, Then plunge and revel in the rolling surf, Then lay our limbs along the tender turf."— Byron . Another delightfully ruinous old corner is Newcastle, which occupies the island opposite Kittery Point, usually called Great Island. Between Newcastle and Kittery is the main ship-channel, with deep water and plenty of sea-room. On the south of Great Island is another entrance called Little Harbor, with shal

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SALEM VILLAGE, AND '92.

Banquo. "Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten of the insane root, That takes the reason prisoner?"— Macbeth. Salem Village has a sorrowful celebrity. It would seem as if an adverse spell still hung over it, for in the changes brought by time to its neighbors it has no part, remaining, as it is likely to remain, Salem Village—that is to say, distinctively antiquated, sombre, and lifeless. A collection of houses scattered along the old high-road from Salem to Andover, decen

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A WALK TO WITCH HILL.

"Do not the hist'ries of all ages Relate miraculous presages, Of strange turns in the world's affairs, Foreseen by astrologers, soothsayers, Chaldeans, learned genethliacs, And some that have writ almanacs?" Hudibras. In 1692 Salem may have contained four hundred houses. A few specimens of this time now remain in odd corners—Rip Van Winkles or Wandering Jews of old houses, that have outlived their day of usefulness, and would now be at rest. Objects of scorn to the present generation, they have

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MARBLEHEAD.

" Launcelot. Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but at the next turning of all on your left; marry, at the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn down indirectly to the Jew's house."— Merchant of Venice. Marblehead is a backbone of granite, a vertebra of syenite and porphyry thrust out into Massachusetts Bay in the direction of Cape Ann, and hedged about with rocky islets. It is somewhat sheltered from the weight of north-east storms by the sweep of the cape, which launches it

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PLYMOUTH.

"What constitutes a state? Not high raised battlements or labored mound, Thick walls or moated gate." Plymouth is the American Mecca. It does not contain the tomb of the Prophet, but the Rock of the Forefathers, their traditions, and their graves. The first impressions of a stranger are disappointing, for the oldest town in New England looks as fresh as if built within the century. There is not much that is suggestive of the old life to be seen there. Except the hills, the haven, and the sea, th

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PLYMOUTH, CLARK'S ISLAND, AND DUXBURY.

"Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod! They have left unstain'd what there they found— Freedom to worship God!"— Mrs. Hemans . Let us now take a walk in Leyden Street. Until 1802 the principal street of the Pilgrims was without a name; it was then proposed to give it the one it now so appropriately bears. In my descent of the hill into the town square, I passed under the shade of some magnificent elms just putting forth their spring buds. Some of those natural enemies of trees

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PROVINCETOWN.

"A man may stand there and put all America behind him."— Thoreau . As it was already dark when I arrived in Provincetown, I saw only the glare from the lantern of Highland Light in passing through Truro, and the gleaming from those at Long Point and Wood End, before the train drew up at the station. It having been a rather busy day with me (I had embarked at Nantucket in the morning, idled away a few hours at Vineyard Haven, and rested as many at Cohasset Narrows), it will be easily understood w

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NANTUCKET.

"God bless the sea-beat island! And grant for evermore That charity and freedom dwell, As now, upon her shore."— Whittier . The sea-port of Nantucket, every body knows, rose, flourished, and fell with the whale-fishery. It lies snugly ensconced in the bottom of a bay on the north side of the island of the name, with a broad sound of water between it and the nearest main-land of Cape Cod. The first Englishman to leave a distinct record of it was Captain Dermer, who was here in 1620, though Weymou

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NANTUCKET—continued.

Muskeeget, Tuckanuck, Maddequet, Sankoty, Coatue, Siasconset. History is said to repeat itself, and why may not the whale-fishing? Now that the ships are all gone, a small whale is occasionally taken off the island, as in days of yore. While I was at Nantucket, a school of blackfish were good enough to come into the shallows not far from the harbor, and stupid enough to permit themselves to be taken. The manner of their capture was truly an example of the triumph of mind over matter. When the sc

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NEWPORT OF AQUIDNECK.

"This castle hath a pleasant seat: the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses."— Macbeth. Newport is an equivoque. It is old, and yet not; grave, though gay; opulent and poor; splendid and mean; populous or deserted. As the only place in New England where those who flee from one city are content to inhabit another, it is anomalous. In his "Trois Mousquetaires" Alexander Dumas makes his giant, Porthos, encounter a ludicrous adventure. The guardsman is the complacent posse

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PICTURESQUE NEWPORT.

"Don't you see the silvery wave? Don't you hear the voice of God?" Kirke White . There is a walk of singular beauty along the sea-bluffs that terminate the reverse of the hills on which Newport is built. It is known as the Cliff Walk. Every body walks there. A broken wall of rock overhanging or retreating from its base, but always rising high above the water, is bordered by a foot-path with pleasant windings and elastic turf. The face of the cliff is studded with stony pimples; its formation bei

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THE FRENCH AT NEWPORT.

"Grenadiers, rendez-vous!" "La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas." "Braves Français, rendez-vous; vous serez traités comme les premiers soldats du monde." " La garde meurt et ne se rend pas. "— Old Guard at Waterloo . Another phase of Newport in by-gone days was the sojourn of our French allies in the Revolution. Then there were real counts, and dukes, and marquises in Newport. There had also been a British occupation; but the troops of his Britannic Majesty ruined the town, humiliated its pride, an

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NEWPORT CEMETERIES.

"Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession."— Shakspeare . Assuming the looker-on to be free from all qualms on the subject of grave-yard associations, I invite him to loiter with me awhile among the tombstones of buried Newport. As we thread the streets of the town, sign-boards or door-plates inform us who are the occupants; and in pursuing the narrow paths of the burial-place, the tablets set up denote, not only the

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TO MOUNT HOPE, AND BEYOND.

"La mattina al monte, e la sera al fonte."— Italian Proverb. Mohammed, it is said, on viewing the delicious and alluring situation of Damascus, would not enter that city, but turned away with the exclamation, "There is but one paradise for man, and I am determined to have mine in the other world." I started on my morning walk up the island just as the clocks were striking eight. Spring comes in Newport very early and very verdant. The bloom of orchard and of lilac greeted me. At every step I cru

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NEW LONDON AND NORWICH.

"It seems that you take pleasure in these walks, sir."— Massinger . New London is a city hiding within a river, three miles from its meeting with the waters of Long Island Sound. On the farthest seaward point of the western shore is a light-house. Before, and yet a little eastward of the river's mouth, is an island about nine miles long screening it from the full power of Atlantic storms, and forming, with Watch Hill, [308] the prolongation of the broken line of land stretching out into the Soun

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SAYBROOK.

"Says Tweed to Till, 'What gars ye rin sae still?' Says Till to Tweed, 'Though ye rin wi' speed, An' I rin slaw, For ae man that ye droon, I droon twa.'"— Old Song. Rather more than a hundred miles from New York the railway crosses the Connecticut River, on one of those bridges that at a little distance resemble spiders' webs hung between the shores. From here one may look down quite to the river's mouth, where it enters the Sound; and if it be a warm summer's day, the bluish-gray streak of land

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The Earth:

A Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the Globe. By Élisée Reclus . Translated by the late B. B. Woodward , M.A., and Edited by Henry Woodward , British Museum. Illustrated with 234 Maps inserted in the Text, and 23 Page Maps printed in Colors. 8vo, Cloth, $5.00; Half Calf, $7.25....

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The Ocean,

Atmosphere, and Life. Being the Second Series of a Descriptive History of the Life of the Globe. By Élisée Reclus . Illustrated with 250 Maps or Figures, and 27 Maps printed in Colors. 8vo, Cloth, $6.00; Half Calf, $8.25....

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The Atmosphere.

Translated from the French of Camille Flammarion . Edited by James Glaisher , F.R.S. With 10 Chromo-Lithographs and 86 Woodcuts. 8vo, Cloth, $6.00; Half Calf, $8.25....

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Goldsmith's Poetical Works.

Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With Illustrations by C. W. Cope, A.R.A., Thomas Creswick, J. C. Horsley, R. Hedgrave, A.R.A., and Frederick Tayler, Members of the Etching Club. With a Biographical Memoir, and Notes on the Poems. Edited by Bolton Corney . 8vo, Cloth, Beveled Boards, $3.00; Cloth, Gilt Edges, $3.75; Turkey Morocco, Gilt Edges, $7.50....

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California:

For Health, Pleasure, and Residence. A Book for Travellers and Settlers. By Charles Nordhoff . Profusely Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $2.50....

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Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands.

By Charles Nordhoff . Profusely Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $2.50....

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A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge,

For Popular and Professional Use; Comprising full Information on Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Subjects. With nearly One Thousand Maps and Illustrations. Edited by the Rev. Lyman Abbott , with the Co-operation of the Rev. T. J. Conant , D.D. Royal 8vo, containing over 1000 pages, Cloth, $6.00; Sheep, $7.00; Half Morocco, $8.50....

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The Rise of the Dutch Republic.

A History. By John Lothrop Motley , LL.D., D.C.L. With Portrait of William of Orange. 3 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $10.50; Sheep, $12.00; Half Calf, $17.25....

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History of the United Netherlands:

From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce—1609. With a Full View of the English-Dutch Struggle Against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By John Lothrop Motley , LL.D., D.C.L. With Portraits. 4 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $14.00; Sheep, $16.00; Half Calf, $23.00....

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Life and Death of John of Barneveld,

Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years' War." By John Lothrop Motley , LL.D., D.C.L. Illustrated. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $7.00; Sheep, $8.00; Half Calf, $11.50....

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Pottery and Porcelain of all Times and Nations.

With Tables of Factory and Artists' Marks, for the Use of Collectors. Profusely Illustrated. By William C. Prime , LL.D. 8vo, Cloth, Gilt Tops and Uncut Edges, $7.00. ( In a Box. )...

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The Poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Selected and Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott . With English and American Additions by Evart A. Duyckinck . 141 Illustrations. Elegant Small 4to, Cloth, Gilt Edges, $5.00; Half Calf, $5.50; Full Morocco, Gilt Edges, $9.00....

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Songs of Our Youth.

By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Set to Music. Square 4to, Cloth, Illuminated, $2.50....

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Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast.

By Samuel Adams Drake . With numerous Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $3.50; Half Calf or Half Morocco, $5.75....

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Peru:

Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas. By E. George Squier , M.A., F.S.A., late U. S. Commissioner to Peru. With Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $5.00....

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Contemporary Art in Europe.

By S. G. W. Benjamin . Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Illuminated and Gilt, $3.50....

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The Poets and Poetry of Scotland:

From the Earliest to the Present Time. Comprising Characteristic Selections from the Works of the more Noteworthy Scottish Poets, with Biographical and Critical Notices. By James Grant Wilson . With Portraits on Steel. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $10.00....

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Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution;

Or, Illustrations by Pen and Pencil of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence. By Benson J. Lossing . 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $14.00; Sheep, $15.00; Half Calf, $18.00....

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The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812;

Or, Illustrations by Pen and Pencil of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the last War for American Independence. By Benson J. Lossing . With 882 Illustrations, engraved on Wood by Lossing and Barritt, chiefly from original Sketches by the Author. Complete in One Volume, 1084 pages, large 8vo. Price, in Cloth, $7.00: Sheep, $8.50; Full Roan, $9.00; Half Calf or Half Morocco extra, $10.00....

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The Geographical Distribution of Animals.

With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface. By Alfred Russel Wallace , Author of the "Malay Archipelago," &amp;c. In Two Volumes. With Maps and Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $10.00....

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The First Century of the Republic.

A Review of American Progress. 8vo, Cloth, $5.00; Sheep, $5.50; Half Morocco, $7.25. [1] "Et que passé cette rivière la côte tourne à l'Ouest et Ouest-Norouest plus de deux cens cinquante lieues," etc. [2] The monk André Thevet, who professes to have visited Norumbega River in 1556, says it was called by the natives "Agoncy." [3] According to the Abbé Maurault, Pentagoët, in the Indian vocabulary, signifies "a place in a river where there are rapids." On the authority of the "History of the Aben

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