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Title: Pilgrim memorials, and guide for visitors to Plymouth Village: with a lithographic map, and seven copperplate engravings
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Russell, William S. (William Shaw), 1792-1863
Subjects: Plymouth (Mass.) -- Guidebooks Massachusetts -- History New Plymouth, 1620-1691
Publisher: Boston, Printed for the author by C.C.P. Moody
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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am was restored to itsproper position by means of a screw, strongly securedby the carpenter, and they continued their voyage.And so, after many boisterous storms, in which theycould bear no sail, but were forced to lie at hull formany days together, after long being at sea, (on the9th of Nov.) they fell in with the land, called CapeCod, the which being made and certainly known to beit, they were not a little joyful. FOREFATHERS ROCK. A Kock in the wilderness welcomed onr sires, v. From bondage far over the dark rolling sea ;On that holy altar they kindled the fires, Jehovah ! which glow in our bosoms for thee. Anoymous. The Forefathers Rock, so attractive to the curiosityof visitors, excepting that part of it which is nowenclosed within the railing in front of Pilgrim Halhretains the same position it occupied two hundred andthirty years ago, when the founders of New Eng-land first landed on our shores, and introduced the artsof civilization, the institutions of religion, civil govern-
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ment and education, upon the ba&is of just and equalrights, which from that memorable day to the presenttime, have secured the general good of the whole com-munity, to an extent probably unexampled in any equalperiod of human experience, It is not a little curious that one loose rock on theshore of Plymouth harbor, should have become so fa-mous as is that called the Pilgiim Rock, wherethere is not known in the township a single ledge savethose the fisherman reaches with his lead at variouspoints of the coast. Pilgrim Rock is one of theseboulders — itself an older pilgrim than those wholanded on it. It is an extremely hard variety of Sien-itic granite, of a dark giey color. The mica is in verysmall quantity, in fine black particles. The rock, byits rounded edges, bears evidence of its rolled charac-ter, as well as of the attempts to break specimens fromit; which fortunately its extreme hardness renders sel-dom successful. This rock is now in two pieces, eachpiece about four feet

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