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Title: The Pilgrims and their monument
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Carpenter, Edmund J. (Edmund Janes), 1845-1924
Subjects: Provincetown, Mass. Pilgrim monument Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ADDRESS OF CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D.

What a contrast between our surroundings here to-
day and the scenes and sounds which greeted the
Pilgrims two hundred and ninety years ago in this
Cape Cod Harbor—welcome refuge from the perils
and miseries of the vast and furious ocean on which
they had three times set out from England for north-
ern Virginia, first from Southampton on August
15th, then from Dartmouth about September 2d, and
finally from Plymouth on September 16th! Then,
they looked anxiously " on a hideous and desolate
wilderness full of wild beasts and wild men, and what
multitude there might be of them they knew not," as
their annalist, William Bradford, says. No friend
was there to greet them; no shelters on the wintry land
were ready for them; they could count on no human
succour; they heard no sounds except the cries of sea-
birds, the breaking of the waves, the sighing or rush-
ing of the wind, or some yelp or scream from the
thickets on the shore—was it of savage beast or sav-
age man? A great solitude encompassed them; their

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CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D., PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

THE DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT

little vessel—the Mayflower measured only one hun-
dred and eighty tons—floated on a lonely sea without
a sail; and westward stretched to unknown distances a
mysterious wilderness. Now, countless human habi-
tations meet our view; a happy and prosperous popu-
lation occupies the smiling land and confidently uses
the tamed ocean, with its ports, islands, and inlets, for
its business and its pleasures. Where the Mayflower
rested alone from November 21st to December 26th,
1620, we see a throng of vessels, some for pleasure,
some for fishing, and some for trade, and with them
numerous representatives of a strong naval force
maintained by the eighty million free people who in
nine generations from the Pilgrims have explored,
subdued, and occupied that mysterious wilderness, so
formidable to the imagination of the early European
settlers on the Atlantic coast of the American con-
tinent. We are to hear the voices of the Chief Magistrate

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