The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . THE BARBICAN, PLYMOUTH. On the Barbican, Plymouth, the quamt old quay fromwhich the Mayflower finally sailed, the pilgrim willsee a square slab inscribed with a name and a date—• Mayflower 1620. There is also a bronze memorialtablet on the parapet. Three centuries later^—nearly to the year^—anotherhistoric event took place at Plymouth, for in June, 1919,the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic—the American 26
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . THE BARBICAN, PLYMOUTH. On the Barbican, Plymouth, the quamt old quay fromwhich the Mayflower finally sailed, the pilgrim willsee a square slab inscribed with a name and a date—• Mayflower 1620. There is also a bronze memorialtablet on the parapet. Three centuries later^—nearly to the year^—anotherhistoric event took place at Plymouth, for in June, 1919,the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic—the American 26 AMERICAN PIL(/RIM SFIKINHS IX THE PRO\IXCES. seaplane , under Read—landed near the spot from which the Mayflower standing on the Mavflower stone the Mayor ofPlymouth welcomed the American commander and his by year thousands of Americans make pilgrimageto the shrines described, all too briefly, in the foregoingsketch and catch something of the spirit that pervades theold-time spots that cradled so many of their famousancestors. They return to their native land, probablyfeeling, with the majority of Englishmen, that the
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