. Here and there in New England and Canada . olonial mansions, and stretching away for 67 three miles, from Deer Island to Oklto\VTi Green. The home of HarrietPrescott Spofford is an ancient road-side tavern on Deer Island, nearthe lofty and graceful suspension-bridge, the first one built in America,and within sight of Hawkswood, the whilom estate of the literaryFletcher family, and Laurel Hill, where Sir Edward Thornton, theBritish ambassador, spent several summers, in a castellated house look-ing over the distant city to the outer sea; and The Laurels, andArtichoke River, inspirers of Applet
. Here and there in New England and Canada . olonial mansions, and stretching away for 67 three miles, from Deer Island to Oklto\VTi Green. The home of HarrietPrescott Spofford is an ancient road-side tavern on Deer Island, nearthe lofty and graceful suspension-bridge, the first one built in America,and within sight of Hawkswood, the whilom estate of the literaryFletcher family, and Laurel Hill, where Sir Edward Thornton, theBritish ambassador, spent several summers, in a castellated house look-ing over the distant city to the outer sea; and The Laurels, andArtichoke River, inspirers of Appleton Browns delicious paintingsand Whittiers verse; and Po Hill, of whose view Bayard Tajlor said:For quiet beauty it excels anything I have ever seen. Not faraway (at the end of a branch railroad from Newburyport) is the pros-perous manufacturing-village of Amesbury, with the home of John , the Walter Scott of all this region of legendary and poeticlore, who has thus beautifully described the seaward view from theneighboring hill :. Its windows flashing to the sky,Beneath a thousand roofs of brown,Far down the vale, my friend and IBeheld the old and quiet town;The ghostly sails that out at seaFlapped their white wings of mystery,The benches glimmering in the the low wooded capes that runInto the sea-mist north and south;The sand-bluffs at the rivers mouth;The swinging chain-bridge, and, afar,The foam-line of the harbor-bar. Nor should the pilgrim omit to drive by the late Ben: PeileyPoores Imliau-Hill Farm; or along the wonderful avenues of elmsround Dummer Academy; or up the river-road towards Groveland;or through the quaint maritime fcmhoiinj of Joppa, the part of New-buryport looking out across its sea-wall to the dark-blue ocean, and 68 rich ill tlie gray old liouses of the flsliermcn, huddled sociably aroundthe narrow grassy lanes. On State Street, the main business-thoroughfare (the old Bostonturnpike, ending here at the Merrimac), is the Wolfe Tavern, on
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