Tarry at home travels . Christ Church, Salem MASSACHUSETTS 167 friends a generation ago for saying, in a littleguide book which I wrote for New England trav-ellers, that the best way to go from Providenceto Newport is by a voyage in a friends still hold to that instruction, though it may. The Evacuation of Boston, March 17, au engraving by F. T. Stuart of the drawing by L. Mollis. give one a slightly exaggerated sense of the re-sources of the country. Thus, the first time Iever went along Cape Cod, my cosmopolitan friend,Mr. Freeman Cobb, took me with his four-in-h
Tarry at home travels . Christ Church, Salem MASSACHUSETTS 167 friends a generation ago for saying, in a littleguide book which I wrote for New England trav-ellers, that the best way to go from Providenceto Newport is by a voyage in a friends still hold to that instruction, though it may. The Evacuation of Boston, March 17, au engraving by F. T. Stuart of the drawing by L. Mollis. give one a slightly exaggerated sense of the re-sources of the country. Thus, the first time Iever went along Cape Cod, my cosmopolitan friend,Mr. Freeman Cobb, took me with his four-in-handbarouche over the admirable highroads of Brew-ster. We were deprived by accident of the 168 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS company of a very distinguished French travellerwho was doing America. And I have dehghtedmyself ever since with imagining what his descrip-tion of Cape Cod would have been if he had gonewith us on that days outing. For I am afraidfrom that time to this time no four-in-hand hasbeen driven over those sands, certainly noneby a more accomplished or agreeable guide. Of course the gentle reader may begin where helikes. I should not be sorry if, hiring a cottageat Nahant or Marblehead Neck or on the BeverlyShore, quite early in June, he made William andEdward, if those were the names of his
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