. Here and there in New England and Canada . - seephaetons, dog-carts, pony-carriages, and liigh-stepping horses, withmuch bravery of costumes and charm of pretty women. There is a peculiar splendor of color at York, in the long greenpastures and meadows, divided l)y gray stone walls, masses of wildroses and golden-rod, and the glorious living blue of sea and sky. Only a mile from the Long Sands, buried under the umbrageousshelter of many trees, slumbers the historic hamlet of York, with itslialf-dozen shops and a somnolent post-office. The little white villagechurch, which facetious summer-vo
. Here and there in New England and Canada . - seephaetons, dog-carts, pony-carriages, and liigh-stepping horses, withmuch bravery of costumes and charm of pretty women. There is a peculiar splendor of color at York, in the long greenpastures and meadows, divided l)y gray stone walls, masses of wildroses and golden-rod, and the glorious living blue of sea and sky. Only a mile from the Long Sands, buried under the umbrageousshelter of many trees, slumbers the historic hamlet of York, with itslialf-dozen shops and a somnolent post-office. The little white villagechurch, which facetious summer-voyagers have named York Minster,has now passed its hunilred and tif tieth year of service. At the ends 93. YORK HARBOR. THE NUBBLE. 94 of the village are inagiiificeut rows of elm-trees, many of which wereset out by Judge Sewall in the last century. Among the tine old cohj-nial houses, white and green, with enrailed roofs and huge chimneys,are those formerly occupied by Judge David Sewall and the gay andgallant Paul Langdon. Here and there, too, appear the mossy gambrel-roofs of still older houses. The jail was built in lG5o, from the proceeds of a county tax, andstill stands on its little knoll over the village-street, partly of heavymasonry, with a dark dungeon shut in by a three-feet thickness ofreeking stone walls, and with a door six inches thick. The records of old York are full of fascination for the mousingantiquary or the cultivated summer-traveller. Its founder was SirFerdinando Gorges, of Somersetshire, one of Queen Elizabeths stout-hearted naval cp^^tains in the Armada dajS, and also an early granteeof New England, and lord-proprietary of the province of Maine. Hedispatched var
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