Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . A BFECIMEN. After all these stirring scenes Ave were gladto find shelter and repose in the Parker House—a most agreeable establishment, by-the-way,with enough of modern elegance to please themost fastidious, and enough of old-fashioned. comfort to silence the most venerable grum-bler. New Bedford is the chief seat of the whalinginterest, having almost entirely superseded CapeCod, Nantucket, and other places once famousfor their enterprise and prowess against themighty leviathan. It is a handsome town, builtprincipally o
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . A BFECIMEN. After all these stirring scenes Ave were gladto find shelter and repose in the Parker House—a most agreeable establishment, by-the-way,with enough of modern elegance to please themost fastidious, and enough of old-fashioned. comfort to silence the most venerable grum-bler. New Bedford is the chief seat of the whalinginterest, having almost entirely superseded CapeCod, Nantucket, and other places once famousfor their enterprise and prowess against themighty leviathan. It is a handsome town, builtprincipally of wood, and containing about twen-ty-five thousand inhabitants. In proportion toits population it is said to be the wealthiesttown in New England, and its long streets ofornamented cottages, surrounded by beautifulshrubberies and flower-gardens, bear witness tothe easy affluence and refined taste of its cit-izens. But it was not those model cottagesand pretty gardens that we came to see. It isthe lower part of the town and the wharves thatthe stranger finds most interesting and attract-ive. Here one stumbles at every step upon thespoils of the great deep, and may find gleaningsfrom every shore known to geographers, andfrom every sea plowed by the keels of adventur-ous navigators. Here are sh
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