. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. MOUTH OF HAMPTON RIVERScene of The Wreck of Rivermouth are most touchingly alluded to by Whittier when he refersto his sisters childhood in the old Snow-bound home-stead : — Lifting her large, sweet, asking bathed in the unfading greenAnd holy peace of Paradise. One day, late in the afternoon, I recall how Elizabeth wasenjoying a cup of tea in the family tent, while Whittierand myself were seated upon a hillock of sand had been a peculiarly beautiful day, and as the sunbegan to decline, the calm sea was lit up with a dreamygrandeu
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. MOUTH OF HAMPTON RIVERScene of The Wreck of Rivermouth are most touchingly alluded to by Whittier when he refersto his sisters childhood in the old Snow-bound home-stead : — Lifting her large, sweet, asking bathed in the unfading greenAnd holy peace of Paradise. One day, late in the afternoon, I recall how Elizabeth wasenjoying a cup of tea in the family tent, while Whittierand myself were seated upon a hillock of sand had been a peculiarly beautiful day, and as the sunbegan to decline, the calm sea was lit up with a dreamygrandeur wherein there seemed a mingling of rose-tint andcolor of pearls. All at once we noticed that the far-off AMESBURY 91. SALISBURY BEACH, BEFORE THE COTTAGES WERE BUILTScene of The Tent on the Beach Isles of Shoals, of which in clear days only the lighthousecould be seen, were lifted into the air, and the vesselsout at sea were seen floating in the heavens. Whittiertold me that he never before witnessed such a sight. Wecalled to the friends in the tent to come and enjoy thescene with us. Elizabeth Whittier was then seeing fromthe shore the very island, reduplicated in the sky, wheretwo years afterwards she met that fatal accident which,after months of suffering, terminated her existence. 92 WIllTTlKR-LAND Elizabeth fell upon the rocks at Applcdore in August,1863. It was not thought at the time that she was seri-ously injured, and perhaps Mr. Fletcher is wrong in at-tributing her death solely to this cause. For many yearsbefore and after the death of his sister, Mr. Whittier spentsome days each sunmier at Appledore. It was at his in-sistence that Celia Thaxter undertook her charming book, Among the Isles
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