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 441

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE Pigeon Cove, Cape Ann. _Fr'tispiece_. Map _In Preface_. Head-piece 18 Jacques Cartier 20 Captain John Smith 21 Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts 23 Sir Humphrey Gilbert 24 Fac-simile of first Map engraved in New England 25 Tail-piece 26 Mount Desert, from Blue Hill Bay 27 Map of Mount Desert Island 28 Samuel Champlain 29 Head of Somes's Sound 32 Echo Lake 33 Cliffs, Dog Mountain, Somes's Sound 37 The Stone Wall 38 Entrance to Somes's Sound 39 Professor Agassiz 40 View of Eagle Lake and the Sea from Green Mountain 43 Cliffs on Bald Porcupine 44 Southerly End of Newport Mountain, near the Sand Beach 45 Cave of the Sea, Schooner Head 46 Cliffs at Schooner Head 47 Devil's Den and Schooner Head 48 Great Head 51 The Ovens, Saulsbury's Cove 55 Tail-piece 57 Castine, approaching from Islesboro 58 General Henry Knox 61 General Benjamin Lincoln 62 Fort Point 63 View from Fort George 66 Sir John Moore 67 Fort Griffith 68 Fort George 69 Tail-piece 72 Ruins of Fort Pentagoët 73 Pine-tree Shilling 75 Colbert 79 Lobster Pot 85 Tail-piece 86 Old Fort Frederick, Pemaquid Point 87 "The Land-breeze of Evening" 88 Cotton Mather 94 Ancient Pemaquid 95 Charlevoix 96 French Frigate, Seventeenth Century 98 Hutchinson 99 Monhegan Island 102 Thatcher's Island Light, and Fog-signals, Cape Ann 103 Graves of Burrows and Blythe, Portland 107 Tail-piece (Burrows's Medal) 108 Gorge, Bald Head Cliff 109 Old Wrecks on the Beach 112 The Morning Round 119 What the Sea can do 123 York Meeting-house 134 Jail at Old York 136 Pillory 137 Stocks 137 Old Garrison House 139 Tail-piece 140 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from Kittery Bridge 141 Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine 142 Block-house and Fort, Kittery Point 144 Sir William Pepperell's House, Kittery Point 145 Sir William Pepperell 146 Kittery Point, Maine 148 Governor Langdon's Mansion, Portsmouth 150 Tail-piece 152 Whale's-back Light 153 Portsmouth and the Isles of Shoals (Map) 154 Shag and Mingo Rocks, Duck Island 158 Meeting-house, Star Island 163 The Graves, with Captain John Smith's Monument, Star Island 165 Gorge, Star Island 169 Tail-piece 174 Cliffs, White Island 175 Blackbeard, the Pirate 178 Smutty Nose 182 Haley Dock and Homestead 183 Ledge of Rocks, Smutty Nose 186 South-east End of Appledore, looking South 187 Duck Island, from Appledore 188 Laighton's Grave 190 Londoner's, from Star Island 191 Covered Way and Light-house, White Island 193 White Island Light 194 Tail-piece 195 Wentworth House, Little Harbor 196 Point of Graves 197 Old House, Great Island 198 Old Tower, Newcastle 199 Gate-way, old Fort Constitution 200 Sir Thomas Wentworth, Wentworth House, Little Harbor 201 Marquis of Rockingham 202 In the Wentworth House, Little Harbor 203 Lady Hancock's Portrait in the Wentworth House 204 Governor Benning Wentworth 206 Baron Steuben 207 Witch Hill, Salem 208 Custom-house, Salem, Massachusetts 211 Rebecca Nurse's House 213 Procter House 214 Birthplace of Putnam 217 Putnam in British Uniform 218 Endicott Pear-tree 218 Tail-piece (Putnam's Tavern Sign) 219 Washington Street, Salem 220 Birthplace of Hawthorne 221 Shattuck House 221 Room in which Hawthorne was born 222 The old Witch House 223 Fragment of Examination of Rebecca Nurse 224 Thomas Beadle's Tavern, 1692 225 Interior of First Church, Salem 227 Ireson's House, Oakum Bay, Marblehead 228 Great Head 229 "The Churn" 230 Drying Fish, Little Harbor 232 Unloading Fish 235 A Group of Antiques 237 Lee Street 239 Tucker's Wharf--the Steps 241 Gregory Street 242 Lee House 245 Town-house and Square 247 St. Michael's, Marblehead 248 Elbridge Gerry 249 The Gerrymander 250 "Old North" Congregational Church 251 Samuel Tucker 252 General Glover 253 Fort Sewall 255 Powder-house, 1755 256 James Lawrence 257 Glimpse of the Seamen's Monument and old Burial-ground 258 Lone Graves 260 "Sitting, stitching in a mournful Muse" 260 The Hoe, English Plymouth 261 Map of Plymouth 262 Pilgrim Hall 263 Brewster's Chest, and Standish's Pot 263 Landing of the Pilgrims 264 Carver's and Brewster's Chairs 265 Mincing Knife 265 Peregrine White's Cabinet 265 Standish's Sword 266 The Old Colony Seal 267 Map of Plymouth Bay 269 Champlain's Map.--Port Cape St. Louis 274 Tail-piece 282 The Pilgrims' first Encounter 283 Building on the Site of Bradford's Mansion 284 Site of the Common House 286 The Allyne House 287 The Joanna Davis House, Cole's Hill 288 Plymouth Rock in 1850 289 The Gurnet 296 Watson's House, Clark's Island 297 Election Rock, Clark's Island 298 Church's Sword 302 Tail-piece 303 Provincetown, from the Hills 304 Cohasset Narrows 305 Highland Light, Cape Cod 306 Washing Fish 309 Mackerel.--A Family Group 313 Pond Village, Cape Cod 315 Picking and sorting Cranberries--Cape Cod 317 Sand-hills, Provincetown 318 Life-boat Station.--Trial of the Bomb and Line 321 Tail-piece (A "Sunfish") 323 Nantucket, from the Sea 324 Map of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard 325 Approach to Martha's Vineyard 326 A Bit of Nantucket--the House-tops 328 Last of the Whale-ships 332 Whaling in the olden Time 333 Whale of the Ancients 334 E. Johnson's Studio, Nantucket 341 Tail-piece 342 Nantucket.--Old Windmill, looking oceanward 343 Captured Porpoise and Blackfish 345 The Blue-fish 346 Blue-fishing 347 Homes of the Fishermen, Siasconset 352 The Sea-bluff, Siasconset 353 Hauling a Dory over the Hills, Nantucket 354 Light-house, Sankoty Head, Nantucket 355 Tail-piece 355 Newport, from Fort Adams 356 Old Fort, Dumpling Rocks 358 Old-time Houses 360 Residence of Governor Coddington, Newport, 1641 361 Newport State-house 363 Commodore Perry's House 364 Jewish Cemetery 365 Jews' Synagogue, Newport 366 Judah Touro 367 The Redwood Library 368 Abraham Redwood 369 The Old Stone Mill 370 The Perry Monument 371 Tail-piece 372 Boat Landing 373 The Beach 374 Cliff Walk 375 The Cliffs 376 A Newport Cottage 377 Charlotte Cushman's Residence 377 Spouting Rock 378 The Dumplings 380 Hessian Grenadier 381 Coast Scene, Newport 382 The Drive 383 Purgatory Bluff 383 Whitehall 384 Washington Park, Newport 385 D'Estaing 386 Earl Howe 388 Rochambeau 388 Rochambeau's Head-quarters 389 Louis XVI 389 Military Map of Rhode Island, 1778 390 Lafayette 391 Baron Vioménil 391 Trinity Church, Newport 392 Chastellux 392 Lanzun 393 Mathieu Dumas 394 Deux-Ponts 395 De Barras 395 Latour D'Auvergne 396 Tail-piece 397 Graves on the Bluff, Fort Road 398 Tombstones, Newport Cemetery 399 Perry's Monument 401 Oliver Hazard Perry 401 Friends' Meeting-house 402 George Fox 403 Charles Lee 404 Mount Hope 407 The Glen 408 A Rhode Island Windmill 409 William Barton 410 Silas Talbot 410 Prescott's Head-quarters 411 Agricultural Prosperity 412 From Butts's Hill, looking North 413 Quaker Hill, from Butts's Hill, looking North 414 Battle-ground of August 29, 1778 414 King Philip, from an old Print 415 Inscription on Dighton Rock 416 Old Leonard House, Raynham 419 New London in 1813 420 New London Harbor, north View 421 New London Light 421 New London in 1781 (Map) 422 Old Block-house, Fort Trumbull 423 A Light-ship on her Station 424 Court-house, New London 425 Bishop Seabury's Monument 426 Groton Monument 427 Benedict Arnold 429 Storming of the Indian Fortress 430 Silas Deane 431 Stephen Decatur 433 Rustic Bridge, Norwich 434 Old Mill, Norwich 435 Signatures of Uncas and his Sons 436 Uncas's Monument 437 Arnold's Birthplace 437 Elm-trees by the Wayside 438 General Huntington's House 438 Mansion of Governor Huntington 439 Congregational Church 440 Tail-piece 440 Peter Stuyvesant 441 Isaac Hull 444 A Moss-grown Memorial 446 Tail-piece 449