A guide-book to Norumbega and Vineland . - time Avander away from them. But let us visit the amphitheatre which is not far distant. The araphi- A short ride of less than a mile in the horse- theatre. -, r^, -114 1 cars, up Brattle Street to Jit. Auburn station,. Drinking Cup. XORUMBEGA AND VINELAND. or by carriage up ]\It. Auburn Street to DrattleStreet and Belmont Street, tlience to CushincrStreet; and, turning doAvn tlie first street tothe left, the splendid amphitheatre lies before us. Here, too, we meet with the care and sur-veillance of Professor Horsford, for he haspurchased the property
A guide-book to Norumbega and Vineland . - time Avander away from them. But let us visit the amphitheatre which is not far distant. The araphi- A short ride of less than a mile in the horse- theatre. -, r^, -114 1 cars, up Brattle Street to Jit. Auburn station,. Drinking Cup. XORUMBEGA AND VINELAND. or by carriage up ]\It. Auburn Street to DrattleStreet and Belmont Street, tlience to CushincrStreet; and, turning doAvn tlie first street tothe left, the splendid amphitheatre lies before us. Here, too, we meet with the care and sur-veillance of Professor Horsford, for he haspurchased the property, and enclosed it withsquare-cut granite posts linked together by aheavy chain. This is conceived to have been a oatherinp-place of the Xorthmen. Here, perchance, came the Althing or Gen- Althing oreral Assembly, to maintain a republican form government such as was held at home. The Althing, in Iceland, made the laws, andthe strictest justice prevailed. A man was ap-pointed to remember and recite these laws, and the edicts of the Althing, the decisions of thecourts, the chronicles of kings and people, thegenealogies and histories of families, the titlesto estates, as held by the Sagamen, weretrusted implicitedly. Or, peradventure, the Norsemen
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