A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . eems probable and natural — indeed only tillthen does it seem possible — that a visit was made by the companygenerally, men, women, and children, to their future home. And it was made, no doubt, with recognition of the occasion as some-thing more than an ordinary occurrence ; with emotions of mingled 1 Bradfords History. Mourts Relation. ^ The u
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . eems probable and natural — indeed only tillthen does it seem possible — that a visit was made by the companygenerally, men, women, and children, to their future home. And it was made, no doubt, with recognition of the occasion as some-thing more than an ordinary occurrence ; with emotions of mingled 1 Bradfords History. Mourts Relation. ^ The upper portion of it was removed, about a hundred years ago, nearer to the centreof the town. 396 THE PURITANS. [Chap. XIV. gladness and sorrow; with sad and tender memories of that past Hfe,ending now as they were preparing to leave the ship that broughtthem from the homes they should never see again; but with sanguinehope also in the new and free life on which they were about toenter, though beginning in hardship and suffering,—visibly begin-ning, with almost all the calamities from which they might have askedto be delivered in no more definite and forcible prayer than thatof the Litany against which they protested, — from lightning and. Landing of John Alden and Mary Chilton. tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and mur-der, and from sudden death. Still another tradition connects this rock with the general land-ing of the Mayflowers passengers.^ The honor of being the first to 1 There is a tradition, as to the person who first leaped upon this rock, when the fami-lies came on shore, December 11, 1620. Coll. Mass. Hist. Society, \ol. Second Series,p. 174. It is such careless statements as this that have led to confusion on this subject. The families were on board the Mayflower in Provincetown harbor, tAventy-five milesfrom Plymouth, on the 11th of December, 1620. The advance party of explorers onlylanded that day somewhere on the Plymouth sho
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