. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ig harbor,Uncle Tom ? Not any more so, but fully as historic, Roger, Uncle Tom fact, the great bays on our Atlantic coast-line have all been, since discov-ery, gateways to the West, and through their open portals have ceaselesslycome the makers of America—peculiar people all. Into MassachusettsBay sailed Pilgrim and Puritan ; into New York Bay, Dutchman and Wal-loon ; into Delaware Bay, Swede and Quaker; into Chesapeake Bay, Cava-lier, Churchman, and Catholic; and into the Carolina
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ig harbor,Uncle Tom ? Not any more so, but fully as historic, Roger, Uncle Tom fact, the great bays on our Atlantic coast-line have all been, since discov-ery, gateways to the West, and through their open portals have ceaselesslycome the makers of America—peculiar people all. Into MassachusettsBay sailed Pilgrim and Puritan ; into New York Bay, Dutchman and Wal-loon ; into Delaware Bay, Swede and Quaker; into Chesapeake Bay, Cava-lier, Churchman, and Catholic; and into the Carolina sounds, Scotchman andGerman. All of these, in their way, made each great water-gate historic, asthrough privation and pluck they became colonists, Englishmen, at first the elements were all singularly diverse. We need to remem-ber, when we grumble about foreign immigration, that we were all foreign-ers once; that the red Indian is the only native American, and that we at-tained our birthright gradually and by slow development. 9° THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS .MJKpt. - -.!. £^&- THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC. But surely, Uncle Tom, exclaimed dainty Marian, you would nt putour ancestors alongside the riffraff that comes in the steerage to-day, wouldyou ? But for answer Uncle Tom, too wise to be led into argument, merelyturned to his niece with a smile, and dropped into poetry. T is distance lends enchantment to the view,And robes the mountain in its azure hue, he said. Come ! all off for Old Point! To-day we are the immigrants. A delightful day was spent on that sandy spot where, of old, the storm-tossed Virginia colonists first found relief and solid ground, and gratetullycalled the land Point Comfort. The young people critically examined the two great hotels, they visitedthe White Squadron, they roamed about the green embrasured fortress thatfronts the sea and gives a martial air to the little town that has grown upabout it. The boys studied the prepara
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