The Pine-tree coast . NK-TREE COAST. to look upon as a judgment sent upon those who sacrilegiously remove theancient landmark. It so fell out that in turning the church around, the old corner-stone, with itsdate of 1747, attesting to the age of the structure, was left outside the newfoundation, where it now remains, which is certainly a very curious place tofind a corner-stone in. The tall and shapely spire of this ancient house of worship is a conspicuousobject for miles around. ?• • (» weathercock on the village spire,With your gulden feathers all on fire !Tell me what can you see from your
The Pine-tree coast . NK-TREE COAST. to look upon as a judgment sent upon those who sacrilegiously remove theancient landmark. It so fell out that in turning the church around, the old corner-stone, with itsdate of 1747, attesting to the age of the structure, was left outside the newfoundation, where it now remains, which is certainly a very curious place tofind a corner-stone in. The tall and shapely spire of this ancient house of worship is a conspicuousobject for miles around. ?• • (» weathercock on the village spire,With your gulden feathers all on fire !Tell me what can you see from your perchAbove there on the tower of the church ? I can see the roofs and the streets below,And the people moving to and fro,And beyond, without either roof or street,The great salt sea, and the fishermans fleet. What was no doubt the first house of worship in York stood at the easterlyside of the old road leading from York village to the Short Sands, a few rods from the road and near the §S§T to) PE-p Ail *\%ft%. OLD CORNER-STONE. sea. So far as I was ableto ascertain, no vestige of itnow remains. In spite of the distinctionwith which history invests it,7*%T^i)s; there are few spots of. ground%^f in New England, I think, inwhich the old traditions havebeen suffered to die out asthey have here in endeavor to recover anytangible traces of the Liliputian city of Gorgeana, with its twenty-one squaremiles, and its twenty or thirty houses, must be equally unproductive. It istrue that most of the original families have disappeared. But all that eventhe best informed persons can say of the past is, that if such or such a personwere alive, perhaps he or she could tell you what you want to know. Whyanybody should want to know about what happened before they were born is amystery they do not attempt to fathom. They look volumes, but speak none. The reply contains at least a suggestion. You at once go away among thegravestones. There is less change here. But there are, unfortu
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