. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . e bomeward vessels which long have sped, Through tempest, and spray, and foam,Catch first a glimmer of old White Head, And are sure they are almost home. The moment a ship is sighted, one of the signal flags, or burgees,which fill rows of pigeon-holes in the top of the tower, is flung to thebreeze by the watchman, and its coming is announced in the shipping-exchanges of Boston and New York, before it has cast anchor. The telescope with which this keen-e
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . e bomeward vessels which long have sped, Through tempest, and spray, and foam,Catch first a glimmer of old White Head, And are sure they are almost home. The moment a ship is sighted, one of the signal flags, or burgees,which fill rows of pigeon-holes in the top of the tower, is flung to thebreeze by the watchman, and its coming is announced in the shipping-exchanges of Boston and New York, before it has cast anchor. The telescope with which this keen-eyed sentinel of the sea scansthe offing, is placed at our disposal, and we turn it hither and thitherupon the landscape, while w^e chat with him. Munjoy hill, he tells us, is named after one of the early settlers,who was an important man in the new colony, though not the earliest white men (to stay) were Cleaves and Tucker, two menfrom Plymouth, England, Avho settled near the shore at the base ofthis hill. The spring by which they placed their cabins still flows, atthe foot of India street. When was this ? In 1G32, and in 1637. OLD HOUSE ON CAPE ELIZABETH. 41 they received a grant of tlic ridgy peninsula upon wliich the city nowhealthfully stands, and induced settlers to come in by generous gifts ofland. In 1658, however, Massachusetts asserted her control over theregion, and named the locality Falmouth,—a name which has survivedin the surl)urbs, among several other designations going back to the17th century. A very superior class of persons now arrived, amongwhom the most prominent was the owner of this hill — George Munjoy,an educated man from Boston. Of course, Baily, the envious New Yorker, interrupts spitefully, Where else in the w^orld could an educated man come from? Thus affairs were flourishing, wlien a fearful interruption wascaused by the Indian massacre of 167G. For two years the town re-mained desolate, after which a few persons returned, and that oth
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