. Here and there in New England and Canada . d Senator RufusKing, raijiister to England; and many another illustrious man. The 65 academy-boys of today stroll peacefullj^ over the wide pastures, orfrom the hill-tops look out over the winding rivers, the picturesquesalt-marshes, and the distant sea; or find an academus in the magnifi-cent avenues of elms near by; or sail down the Parker, by OldtownHill and under bridges and through leagues of salt-marsh, and out byCape ^Merrill, to the salty tides. The Longfellow house ( deserted now for twenty-five years ) standsamong rich smooth fields, near
. Here and there in New England and Canada . d Senator RufusKing, raijiister to England; and many another illustrious man. The 65 academy-boys of today stroll peacefullj^ over the wide pastures, orfrom the hill-tops look out over the winding rivers, the picturesquesalt-marshes, and the distant sea; or find an academus in the magnifi-cent avenues of elms near by; or sail down the Parker, by OldtownHill and under bridges and through leagues of salt-marsh, and out byCape ^Merrill, to the salty tides. The Longfellow house ( deserted now for twenty-five years ) standsamong rich smooth fields, near the head of tide-water on tlie ParkerEiver, marking the ancient home of the ancestors of Americas poet. Back among the hills to the west is Indian Hill, the picturesque oldhome of the late Maj. Ben : Perlej Poore, often called the Abbotsfordof New England, crowded with historical souvenirs,—the chandelierthat hung in Independence Hall when the immortal Declaration wassigned, drums whose rat-a-plau sounded through the volleys at Bunker ^^^. kbl/lMHlLL Hewbury Hill, the carved marble mantle from Peter Stuyvesantshouse at New Amsterdam, the pulpit from which Whitefield preached,documents signed by Napoleon Bonaparte, Sir Walter Scott, and others,and many other rare curiosities. Beyond the Parker-River meadows, ricli in Holland scenery whichthe deft pencil of Cuyp or Ruysdael might have portrayed, the lonelyKnights 3Iills are passed, and then, on the left, the three poplar-treesthat mark the location of the Devils Den; then the old Boston turn-pike, and the red powder-house of old Xewbur}, far oft in the fields;and then the train sweeps around through a ceinture of cemeteriesand reaches Newburyport. 66 CHAPTER YII. HEWBUt^YPORT. Ax Ancient Sea-Blown City.—Its Extinct Commerce.—Joppa.—High Street.—Lovely Environs.—Plum Island.—SalisburyBeach.— The Merrlmac Eiver.—Amesbury. NEWBURYPORT has been happily designated bj^ Joseph Cook as•the ancient sea-blown
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