Tarry at home travels . s andhigh schools; who Massasoit or Ganonicus were,and how they differed from Charles William Eliotand John Davis Long. These people are thepeople who care for history, and they will be gladof such references as Dr. Palfrey gives them;and they will be glad to read the chapters of whichI have spoken; and in very rare cases they willgo to the American Antiquarian Library or theJohn Carter Brown collection of books in Provi-dence, or the Massachusetts Historical SocietysLibrary, or to that of Harvard College, or to theHoward Library in New Orleans to see for them-selves th
Tarry at home travels . s andhigh schools; who Massasoit or Ganonicus were,and how they differed from Charles William Eliotand John Davis Long. These people are thepeople who care for history, and they will be gladof such references as Dr. Palfrey gives them;and they will be glad to read the chapters of whichI have spoken; and in very rare cases they willgo to the American Antiquarian Library or theJohn Carter Brown collection of books in Provi-dence, or the Massachusetts Historical SocietysLibrary, or to that of Harvard College, or to theHoward Library in New Orleans to see for them-selves the original authorities. For our present purpose it must be enough tosay that New England is a peninsula includedwithin an oblong which, if roughly drawn, meas-ures eight degrees of latitude and nine of longi-tude — a little more accurately, perhaps, sixty 12 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS or eighty thousand square miles, be the same moreor less. Dear Dr. Palfrey says with a certainpride that it is just halfway from the Equator. Daniel an engraving by H. Wright Smith, after the painting by J. Ames. to the Pole, and this is interesting, for it givessome slight scientific authority to Dr. Holmessclaim that the gilded dome of the Boston State INTRODUCTORY 13 House is the Hub of the Universe. Indeed,it would amuse the first class in the ninth gradeof some grammar school to see how nearly thatsame gilded dome is at the centre of inhabitedNew England. Possibly some advanced studentin that class may find out, what is unknown toall the readers of these lines, why the accomplishedarchitect Charles Bulfinch put a pineapple on topof the dome. Some of the old writers really thought that NewEngland was an island. What they knew wasthat Henry Hudson had worked his way in theHalf Moon up from the ocean on the south asfar as Albany; that Champlain had come bywater from the ocean on the north as far as LakeChamplain; that between Albany and the headof Lake George there is not a wide distan
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