Tarry at home travels . v^^. The State House. What Dr. Holmes audaciously called the hub of the Universe. 188 CHAPTER VMASSACHUSETTS A YEAR or two before Champlain was discover-ing Bar Harbor and Lake Champlain, the Earlof Southampton, whom thereader and I ought to love,sent a Captain named Gosnoldto discover our dear New Eng-land. For the young noblemenof Queen Elizabeths time werean enterprising and adventu-rous set. They meant to beatthe devil by checkmatingSpain, and they thought a goodway to checkmate Spain andthe devil would be to plantProtestant colonies in North America. So theEarl of
Tarry at home travels . v^^. The State House. What Dr. Holmes audaciously called the hub of the Universe. 188 CHAPTER VMASSACHUSETTS A YEAR or two before Champlain was discover-ing Bar Harbor and Lake Champlain, the Earlof Southampton, whom thereader and I ought to love,sent a Captain named Gosnoldto discover our dear New Eng-land. For the young noblemenof Queen Elizabeths time werean enterprising and adventu-rous set. They meant to beatthe devil by checkmatingSpain, and they thought a goodway to checkmate Spain andthe devil would be to plantProtestant colonies in North America. So theEarl of Southampton sent out Gosnold in a shipof happy omen, for she was called the Concord. 139
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