. Pilgrim memorials, and guide for visitors to Plymouth Village: with a lithographic map, and seven copperplate engravings . ,pursuing a circuitous route;—and now driven in furybefore the raging tempest, on the high and giddywaves. The awful voice of the storm howls throughthe rigging. The laboring masts seem straining fromtheir base ; — the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ;— the ship leaps, as it were, madly, from billow tobillow ; — the ocean breaks, and settles with engulph-ing floods over the floating deck, and beats with dead-ening, shivering weight, against the staggered see
. Pilgrim memorials, and guide for visitors to Plymouth Village: with a lithographic map, and seven copperplate engravings . ,pursuing a circuitous route;—and now driven in furybefore the raging tempest, on the high and giddywaves. The awful voice of the storm howls throughthe rigging. The laboring masts seem straining fromtheir base ; — the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ;— the ship leaps, as it were, madly, from billow tobillow ; — the ocean breaks, and settles with engulph-ing floods over the floating deck, and beats with dead-ening, shivering weight, against the staggered see them, escaped from these perils, pursuing their allbut desperate undertaking, and landed at last, after afive months passage, on the ice clad rocks of Ply-mouth, weak and weary from the voyage — poorlyarmed, scantily provisioned, depending on the charityof their ship-master for a draught of beer on board,drinking nothing but water on shore, — without shel-ter,— without means, — surrounded by hostile now the volume of history, and tell me, on any * Edward Everetts Oration, Dec. 20,1826. j ^^k. I#p^ 27 principle of human probability, what shall be the fateof this handful of adventurers ? Tell me, man of mili-tary science, in how many months were they all sweptoff by the thirty savage tribes, enumerated within theearly limits of New England? Tell me, politician,how long did this shadow of a colony, on which yourconventions and treaties had not smiled, languish onthe distant coast ? Student of history, compare for methe baffled projects, the deserted settlements, the aban-doned adventurers of other times, and find the parallelof this. Was it the winters storm, beating upon thehouseless heads of women and children ; was it hardlabor and spare meals; was it disease; was it thetomahawk; was it the deep malady of a blightedhope, a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, achingin its last moments, at the recollection of the lovedand left, beyond the sea ; was
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