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Identifier: tarryathometrav00hale (find matches)
Title: Tarry at home travels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New York (State) -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rning described in the ninthverse of the first chapter of Genesis may still betraced by the amateur fisherman who has goneup to the narrow trout brook at the head of theConnecticut. It is the same rock which you passon the Vanderbilt road, just north of the Mohawk,at Little Falls and along in such places, if you areon Howellss ^Wedding Journey or on LucyPoors. Lord Ashburton and Mr. Webster agreed forthe northeastern part of the country to makean artificial line. But you and I, for the conven-ience of things, may recollect that all of us NewEnglanders probably live above the oldest landin the world. That is the reason of a certainarrogance which other people accuse us of. But,really, we have not much to do with that steam-ing rock of a hundred million aeons ago, for allNew England was made over again, it seems,when the glaciers came down from the north,covering us all over with a sheet of ice whichwas a thousand feet thick, or more, even overthe top of our Mount Washington. It drifted
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uuTLiNK Map of Maine.17 TNTRODUf^TORY 19 south and south and south, until the AtlanticOcean proved to be too warm for it. It left itsgravel and sand and smaller boulders first in aridge which became Long Island, Block Island,and Nantucket, and, after years more, it madeanother ridge which is now southern Connecti-cut and southern Rhode Island and Cape Cod,I suppose, hicluding, among other excellent places,my own summer home. And, still again, it madea third ridge, five or ten miles inland from theLong Island Sound of to-day. Recollect this,my sophomore friend, when walking throughNew England with your nightgown and tooth-brush in a knapsack. Recollect this. MadamChampernoon, as your chauffeur takes you alongthe Connecticut Valley at a rate not exceedingfifteen miles an hour, as required b)^ the statute,in those last happy moments before the boilerexplodes and you and he leave the study of ter-restrial geology. Of this territory, of which we have establishedthe age in such satisfactory

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