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 420