Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . , bids themto be of good cheer, for he sees the harbor which hehad promised them. Across the bay they steer, keep-ing on a press of sail to make the desired harborbefore nightfall, when crash goes the mast, brokeninto three pieces, and the shallop is near beingwrecked. Now the flood-tide takes them and bearsthem in past the (iurnet nose, and Master Coppin,finding himself in a strange place that he had neverseen before, throws up his hands and exclaims : IheLord be merciful to us, I never saw this placebefore, and in his terror woul
Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . , bids themto be of good cheer, for he sees the harbor which hehad promised them. Across the bay they steer, keep-ing on a press of sail to make the desired harborbefore nightfall, when crash goes the mast, brokeninto three pieces, and the shallop is near beingwrecked. Now the flood-tide takes them and bearsthem in past the (iurnet nose, and Master Coppin,finding himself in a strange place that he had neverseen before, throws up his hands and exclaims : IheLord be merciful to us, I never saw this placebefore, and in his terror would have run the boaton shore, in a cove full of breakers, between theGurnet and Saquish; but a lusty seaman Avhichsteered bade those that rowed, if they were men. CLARK S from the Saquish. 64 about with her, or else they were all cast short twilight of the winter clay had faded intodarkness, as the storm-tossed and disspirited companyfound themselves under the lea of a small it is before us, the third highland to the left —. THE COURTSHIP. 65 the first being the Gurnet and the second landed, and kept their watch that niglit in arain. (tov. Bradford, in his history, gives us a fewmore particulars: In the morning they find theplace to be a small island secure from Indians. Andthis being the last day of the week, they here drytheir stuff, fix their pieces, rest themselves, returnGod thanks for their many deliverances, and here thenext da) keep their Christian Sabbath. Traditionsays that from a large rock with a liat top that isthere now, bearing the inscription, On the Sabbothday wee rested, the first prayer ascended on thisshore; and there, for the first time in New England,praise and thanks were given to that watchful Provi-dence that had guided and guarded them. The nextday, Monday, they sailed up to the shore below us,and, stepping on Ilymouth Rock, made the which ultimately determined them to tix uponthis place f
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