New Castle, historic and picturesque . e last bridge, his floating aqua-rium, full of all the common and uncommon fish of these waters,which you enter through a veranda where summer refresh-ments are served; so that you are quite likely to forget tlieoflensive threepenny fine — Take, gateman, thrice thy fee,—especially if you have observed and enjoyed the variety of landand water scenery to be had from each of the bridges. On theright hand are Clarks, Seavys and Peirces islands; on Seavysis the Revolutionary earthwork, Fort Sullivan ; and on Peirces,Fort Washington, of the same date. Behind Se
New Castle, historic and picturesque . e last bridge, his floating aqua-rium, full of all the common and uncommon fish of these waters,which you enter through a veranda where summer refresh-ments are served; so that you are quite likely to forget tlieoflensive threepenny fine — Take, gateman, thrice thy fee,—especially if you have observed and enjoyed the variety of landand water scenery to be had from each of the bridges. On theright hand are Clarks, Seavys and Peirces islands; on Seavysis the Revolutionary earthwork, Fort Sullivan ; and on Peirces,Fort Washington, of the same date. Behind Seavys Island, butin view of the bridges, is the United States Navy Yard. Themost conspicuous object now at its piers is the old frigate Con-stitution. She has had a house of one story built over herentire deck, and with her chunky bow and square stern shereminds one of the ark of his childhood. From the bridges is agood Aiew of the older portion of Portsmouth; that portion firstnamed and known as Strawberry Bank. On some one of the. HISTOJRIC AND PICTURESQUE 55 islands off this side of Portsmouth, in 1690, was built probablythe first war-vessel in this countr}^ the Falkland, a fifty-four-gun ship, for the British government. In passing over the firstand second bridges, we see the swiftest and most dangerousmile of the Piscataqua. Here the pilot must be wary andexperienced; and he is quite likely to do some swearing at Pull-and-be-damned Point. His predecessors of old christenedit. and he but confirms it. The Piscataqua is hardl}^ a river; it is rather an arm of thesea. Its total length is scarcely twenty miles, and it is salt,though several small streams of fresh water empty into few miles west of Portsmouth it spreads into a broad bay,covering some twelve thousand acres. The name Piscataqua,or Pascataqua, is an Abnaquian Indian word, meaning the[tidal] river branches. Discovered in 1G03, hx Martin Pring,and perhaps earlier, in 1524, by Verazzano, an Italian sailor,re-d
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