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.

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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 Pentagoet 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 Viomenil 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