New Castle, historic and picturesque . gh neither fisherman nor sailor, I reckon an ad\antage,not onh for entertainment, but in the studies and practices ofintellectual life, and the exercise of all duties owed to thecommunity. It is pleasant to feel you have not got the universeto deal with this time, but only some six hundred acres. Fixed and faithful to these, the great world in time passesbj- this way, bringing whatever your dreams have fostered anddestiny, with its cubit and rein, predetermined that you shallpossess or be denied. Thus 3ou cannot rise to dangerousheights; nor can you fall
New Castle, historic and picturesque . gh neither fisherman nor sailor, I reckon an ad\antage,not onh for entertainment, but in the studies and practices ofintellectual life, and the exercise of all duties owed to thecommunity. It is pleasant to feel you have not got the universeto deal with this time, but only some six hundred acres. Fixed and faithful to these, the great world in time passesbj- this way, bringing whatever your dreams have fostered anddestiny, with its cubit and rein, predetermined that you shallpossess or be denied. Thus 3ou cannot rise to dangerousheights; nor can you fall low, for, like the little spider, a trustyrope is always in jour hand. Let us walk on from the site of the -stone-throwing devilhouse, where Ave have lingered too long, to the Three the highest point of the hill which Ave pass just beforecoming to them, Avas a small earthAvork of Revolutionary Avas never used, and is now almost l(>vel with the the time of its construction there were no liouses HISTORIC AND PICTURESQUE 61 and it commanded a narrow part of the river, between the north-western end of New Castle and Seavys Island, on whicli was acompanion work. Fort Sullivan. The view from here takes inthe sea, most of the islands in the harbor, the whole of Kitter}-,namely, Kittery Foreside, Backside and Kittery Point,and we see the way at least to the extreme eastern end of the town,which Mrs. Celia Thaxter calls Kittery Cutt. Yonder is thequeer old Fort McClarj^ at Kittery Point, a nondescript structure,half Avood, half stone, and many-angled; something between ablock-house and Martello tower. A little distance eastward of itis the mansion of Sir William Pepperell, and his tomb. SirWilliam Pepperell was a trader, and the son of a trader; amilitia colonel, rich, prosperous, a man of probity and sagacity,and the central human figure in these parts, in the first half ofthe eighteenth century. In the French war, Hio, he was selectedto lead
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