. Essex county, , illustrated . ll or BackBay, now called Newark Bay, on the shores of which and onthe soil of Essex County, he planted the Hag of discovery asthe herald of civilization. The beauty of the region lying but a few miles westerly on turned out that the sweet-scented cedars of yore, so abundantbetween Newark and New York, have long years ago nearlyall disappeared and are seldom seen any more. FIRST SETTLEHENT. As has been before hinted, efforts at settlement of the beau-tiful and promising region had been made, but twas notuntil Robert Treat and his hardy band of honest farmers
. Essex county, , illustrated . ll or BackBay, now called Newark Bay, on the shores of which and onthe soil of Essex County, he planted the Hag of discovery asthe herald of civilization. The beauty of the region lying but a few miles westerly on turned out that the sweet-scented cedars of yore, so abundantbetween Newark and New York, have long years ago nearlyall disappeared and are seldom seen any more. FIRST SETTLEHENT. As has been before hinted, efforts at settlement of the beau-tiful and promising region had been made, but twas notuntil Robert Treat and his hardy band of honest farmerscame, bringing with them more honor and less greed for gold,nothing like permanency resulted. To establish homes and toseek an asylum where true liberty might reign and where underits protecting aegis they could worship God after the dictates oftheir own conscience, these farmers came. Religious liberty they sought, and this they gained, for if the record speaksthe truth, and in our research we find no reason for its gain-. •THE FIRST SUKVEVING STATION ESTAHLISHED AT EACLK ROCK, ESSEX COUNTY, N. }.. 1666. tlie left bank of the Pasayic, as it was then called, and whichopcnc<l up to ever) new visitor such an entrancing vista of land-scape beauty after passing the sweet-scented cedars whichnestled in the marsh and salt grass of the meadows. But thatwas in the long, long ago, and before Young America (everpiscatorially inclined) loppeil the lithe young scions fromthe parent tree in order to gain a supply of the rod so essentialto complete the outfit for the artist in the fish enticing line, abusiness, then as well as now playing so important a part in thework of supplying the constant demand for that delicious partof mans appetite satiators known as food fishes. Nay, more,the gardeners had a fondness for using the young tamarisks toassist the new worlds skillfully climbing Limas. So it has saying, never did men worship with more freedom, mcihonesty or more unself
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