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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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him, and fornearly fifty years his relations with their leadersproved to be of great value to the infant con-federacy of New England. According to me, hisstudies of the Indian character with his studiesof the Indian language are the most importantdocuments of that time which we have left in ourtoo scanty ethnological libraries. Do not neglect by any means to go to Bristol —quaint, old-fashioned, historical, and beautiful.You see there were days when the maritime com-merce of Bristol was, I think, quite equal to thatof New York; certainly it was in advance overthat of Boston. To hold the Narragansett Baywas the ambition of the English commandersthrough the Revolution. And there is many aRevolutionary story, now of battle, now of ad-venture, now of intrigue, of these waters, and ofthese shores. Look on the right pane of theright window and you shall find where somemodest patriot wrote on the glass what he seemsnot to have dared to say to the face of ^Hhe in-comparable Miss Abby Brown.
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Captaix Esek Hopkins,Commandant en Chef la Flotte Americaixe. 211 RHODE ISLAND 213 It was the Bristol slave traders whom Mr.Webster rebuked in his Plymouth address of1820. 1808 marked the year when the slavetrade was prohibited almost of course by Con-gress. But the shackles were still forged inBristol County in Massachusetts, and the shackleswent from Bristol in Rhode Island to the WestAfrican shore. The yachtsmen still exult in the name ofHerreshoff, and in the fame which Bristol haswon when she has sent out such boats as theColumbia and the Defender and the other cham-pions of the sea. Whoever wants to see one ofthe finest memorials of the finest old life of NewEngland must obtain an introduction which shallopen to him the doors of the Herreshoff home-steads. Bristol does not send shackles to Africa anylonger; but very likely, my dear Annabel, whenyou walk across the snowy sidewalk next Decem-ber, you will be wearing Bristol overshoes. I donot mean to intimate that they are too sma

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