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.--Champlain's Voyages in New England.--French Pilgrims make the first Landing.--Why the Natives were hostile to the Pilgrims of 1620.--Confusion among old Writers about Plymouth.--Among the Tombstones of Burial Hill.--The Pilgrims' Church-fortress.--What a Dutchman saw here in 1627.--Military Procession to Meeting.--Ancient Church Customs.--Puritans, Separatists, and Brownists.--Flight and Political Ostracism of the Pilgrims.--Their form of Worship.--First Church of Salem.--Plymouth founded on a Principle 261