. Here and there in New England and Canada . 1. South Church, Sjilcm. 2. North Church, Salem. one of the heroes and victims of the Civil War; of Bradstreet andEndicott, Pickering and Cabot, Bowditch and Peirce, Derby and Crown- 37 inshield, and scores of others, proudly conspicuous in the annals ofAmerica and of the world. The aristocratic old families of Salem — the Endicotts, Crownin-shields, Tuckermans, Silsbces, Peabodys, Rautouls, and a few others —have enjoyed the ad^-antages of wealth and ability, singlj- or together,ever since the foundation of Massachusetts, and are reputed to liesing


. Here and there in New England and Canada . 1. South Church, Sjilcm. 2. North Church, Salem. one of the heroes and victims of the Civil War; of Bradstreet andEndicott, Pickering and Cabot, Bowditch and Peirce, Derby and Crown- 37 inshield, and scores of others, proudly conspicuous in the annals ofAmerica and of the world. The aristocratic old families of Salem — the Endicotts, Crownin-shields, Tuckermans, Silsbces, Peabodys, Rautouls, and a few others —have enjoyed the ad^-antages of wealth and ability, singlj- or together,ever since the foundation of Massachusetts, and are reputed to liesingularly exclusive, because satisfied in their own charmed Essex Street is the venerable colonial-looking house of WilliamC. Endicott, Secretary of War of the United States during PresidentClevelands administration. You ma_v ramljle at will down the ((uiet old semi-rural streets, undertheir lines of spreading trees, and study the great mansions of dull red. Ti^jtoK^i EAST-INDIA MARINE HALL, SALEM. brick, ivv-grown and secluded, where the East-India merchants dweltin stately simplicity and grave decorum, in that far-past time whenSalem was the Sidon of America. Here are quaint old dame-schoolsand cent-shops, architecture of the Georgian era, and everywherememories of Alice Pyncheon and Wizard Maule and Doctor Grimsliaweand other creatures of the romancers fancy. If time allows, you may go down to the old North Bridge, and seethe granite and bronze memorial, showing where three hundred Britishtroops under Leslie were sent back to their boats by armedEssex; or the Peabody house, on Charles Street, where Hawthornewooed his wife ; or Nathaniel Bowditchs birthplace, on Kimball Court;or Rufus Choates house, at 12 Lynde Street; or the Narbonne house. 38 at 71 Essex Street, built before 1G80; or the quaint old l)rick cit\--liall,with its valuable portraits of Saltonstall, Lafajette, and Washington;or the birthplace of Timothy Pickerin


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