. Here and there in New England and Canada . ingthe Marblehead victims of the storm of September lOtli, 1846, on theGrand Banks of Newfoundland, when sixty-five fishermen from thistown were engulfed, leaving forty-three widows and one hmidred andfifty-five fatherless children. The view from the burying-ground includes a vast area of sea andshore, and the old salts of the village delight in coming up hither, tosmoke their pipes, and look ofl on the blue plain and its islands andsails. On the high blufi near by stood Fort Washington, a defensivework of the Revolutionary era. Sojourners at Marble
. Here and there in New England and Canada . ingthe Marblehead victims of the storm of September lOtli, 1846, on theGrand Banks of Newfoundland, when sixty-five fishermen from thistown were engulfed, leaving forty-three widows and one hmidred andfifty-five fatherless children. The view from the burying-ground includes a vast area of sea andshore, and the old salts of the village delight in coming up hither, tosmoke their pipes, and look ofl on the blue plain and its islands andsails. On the high blufi near by stood Fort Washington, a defensivework of the Revolutionary era. Sojourners at Marblehead should carefully read Bynners capitalhistorical romance of Agnes Surriage, founded on Sir Harrj^ Frank-lands singular adventures here, in the old Provincial days, and contain-ing most brilliant descriptions of the ancient town and its grandfather was Oliver Cromwells great-grandson, andhis father was governor of the East-India Company in 171G, when Harrywas born, in Bengal. In later years he was an intimate friend of 27. 28 Walpole, Fielding, and Cliesterflold (tlie lattei of wliom he greatlyresembled) ; j^et destiny gave his fate into tlie hands of a Marbleheadfishermans daughter. Near the site of the Fountain Inn (at whose well romantic visitorsmay drink) is the Old Brig house, long ago the home of EdwardDimond, the famous wizard and sea-captain, whose ships decks atmorning were often found heaped high with fish, caught l)y goblinsduring the night. It is a matter of tradition that JMoU Pitcher, thefortune-teller of Lynn, was Dimonds daughter, born in the Old Brig. Shoe-making has always been an important industry of the town, forwhen the fishing-fleets came home in the late autumn, their marinerssettled down for the winter at this more comfortable work; and everyMarblehead home had its little one-story shop near by, perched on thecrags, or nestling in the yard. Here the master of the family spentthe winter making shoes by hand, the while over his lapstone
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