. Here and there in New England and Canada . cable to England, a relaystation for strengthening the electric current between New York andTorbay, in Nova Scotia. From the Greenland station a mail-stage runs two and a half mileseastward to the quaint village of Rye, over which an air of antiquitybroods like a perpetual charm. The six miles of beaches belonging tothis ancient town include Fosss Beach, Wallis Sands, and other well-known localities, full of rare natural beauty, and overflowed perpetuallyby the life-giving air of the ocean. Hampton, Portsmouth, Newcastle,and Exeter are within easy d
. Here and there in New England and Canada . cable to England, a relaystation for strengthening the electric current between New York andTorbay, in Nova Scotia. From the Greenland station a mail-stage runs two and a half mileseastward to the quaint village of Rye, over which an air of antiquitybroods like a perpetual charm. The six miles of beaches belonging tothis ancient town include Fosss Beach, Wallis Sands, and other well-known localities, full of rare natural beauty, and overflowed perpetuallyby the life-giving air of the ocean. Hampton, Portsmouth, Newcastle,and Exeter are within easy driving-distance, over roads of rare beautyand interest. The 1)athing on the beaches is very good. Concord Point, five miles from Portsmouth and six miles from RyeBeach, was a lonely and barren pasture as late as the year 1870, butnow it is a prosperous sea-side resort, occupied chiefly by citizens ofConcord,—the Kimballs, Thayers, Emerys, Morrills, and others. Itcommands a fine view of the Isles of Shoals, only six miles oflT shore. I 77. T8 CHAPTER IX. POt^TSMOUTH. STRAWBERTtY BaXK. —A NaVAL PoRT.— HISTORIC HOFSKS. — BoOKS ABOUT THE Town.—The Uxited-States Navy-Yard. PORTSMOUTH is one of the clear and precious old towns of NewEngland, surrounded with an aureole of delightful legends andhistoric events, and abounding in memories of gi-eat men. Therapid-flowing Piscataqua sweeps by its leaning old wharves, toenter the sea a league below. The history of the town is full of inter-esting episodes, from the dawn of 1G03, when Capt. Martin Pring camesailing up the river in search of sassafras, and 1G14, when the adven-turous Capt. John Smith explored the lonely harbor. Soon afterwards,the first settlers began to arrive, Tliompson and his Scottish fishermenat Odiornes Point, and Chadbourne at the Great House (on CourtStreet). They called the colony Strawberry Bank for many years,after a luxuriant bed of wild strawberries near the river; and in 1653the Massachusetts General C
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