What to see in America . ^ stones on his body. Nathaniel Hawthorne wasborn at Salem in 1804 in a house that still stands, and notfar from that is the House of Seven Gables to which thefamily moved when he was four years old. In his manhoodhe was collector of the port for a time, and daily labored at Massachusetts 39. Old Mother Anx, Cape Ann the custom house, though it was said that he never couldadd up figgers. Like many another American city, Salemhas had its great fire. This started in a leather factory inJune, 1914. Several persons were burned to death, othersdied from excitement, and 20,0
What to see in America . ^ stones on his body. Nathaniel Hawthorne wasborn at Salem in 1804 in a house that still stands, and notfar from that is the House of Seven Gables to which thefamily moved when he was four years old. In his manhoodhe was collector of the port for a time, and daily labored at Massachusetts 39. Old Mother Anx, Cape Ann the custom house, though it was said that he never couldadd up figgers. Like many another American city, Salemhas had its great fire. This started in a leather factory inJune, 1914. Several persons were burned to death, othersdied from excitement, and 20,000 people were left homeless. Only a few miles from Salem is Marblehead, on a boldheadland. Its inhabitants were fishermen for many genera-tions, but lat-terly the townhas become amanufacturingcenter and sum-mer resort. A more im-portant out-thrust of thecoast is CapeAnn, which Capt. John Smith called Tragabigzanda in honorof a Turkish lady whose slave he had been in Constanti-nople. Back of Cape Ann is Gloucester, New Englandsgreatest fishing port, and a place of notable picturesquenessand interest. Another charming old coast town is Newbury-port at the mouth of the INIerrimac. Of its various famousresidents probably Lord Timothy Dexter is most fascinat-ing to visitors, a fact not wholly to the liking of its
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