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Title: Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955
Subjects: Cities and towns -- New England Cities and towns -- Great Britain Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Anniversaries, etc New England -- History
Publisher: New York G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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ling between Hollandand the Enghsh coast that spirits were sometimes more profitable than fishing.On the town arms are three herrings with Uons heads, a symbol of the prosperityof the town and also a recognition of loyalty to the King. It was the beachmens colony in Yarmouth that especially attracted the atten-tion of Dickens; these beachmen used to derive their living from salvaging boatsthat went ashore off the Yarmouth coast, and according to one of the historiansof the town the customary prayer of the children of this httle colony was, PrayGod send daddy a good ship ashore before morning. There are many people inYarmouth who remember Dickens Mr. Peggottys house, which was an oldship on the beach where he Hved. Dickens must have been very fond of the town,because he is said to have made the remark that if one had a grudge against anyparticular insurance company the best way to gratify it would be to buy a largeannuity and then retire to Yannouth to live. YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS 217
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From an old print; piiotograph by Alfred Yallop Kindness Ian Forbes-Robertson, Esq. THE QUAY, YARMOUTH, ENGLAND,as it looked in 1814, showing Custom-House and Town House. The Quay is over a mile in length. In the town there are many quaint houses, which have a very foreign appear-ance, resembling very much the old buildings of Amsterdam and Rotterdam;David Coppcrfield himself thought they looked very Dutch, also saying that ifland had been a Httle more separated from the sea and the town and the tide hadnot been quite so mixed up, like toast and water, it would have been much nicer,but after he had smelt the fish, pitch, oakum and tallow, and had seen the sailorswalking about, he said he felt he had done the place an injustice. Characteristicof the town are the numerous Rows, or narrow alleys, one of which, calledKitty Witches, is at one point only twenty-nine inches wide. An interesting visitor to Yarmouth was Charles II who was received there in1671, and who was presented with four

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