. Here and there in New England and Canada . s born. Formore than a century, the home of the royal governors and the kingscouncil rested here. Portsmouth has always been a naval and military town, from theseventeenth ceutmy, when the British convoy-frigates refitted here,and sent their rojstering Jack Tars on leave through the narrow colo-nial streets, to the recent daj-s of the Constitution and Kcarsarrje andtheir gallant crews. Prom this region went the rugged troops whomWashington inquired about as they boldlj marched into his camp, andwas answered by Cilley, of Nottingham: Theyre full-bloo
. Here and there in New England and Canada . s born. Formore than a century, the home of the royal governors and the kingscouncil rested here. Portsmouth has always been a naval and military town, from theseventeenth ceutmy, when the British convoy-frigates refitted here,and sent their rojstering Jack Tars on leave through the narrow colo-nial streets, to the recent daj-s of the Constitution and Kcarsarrje andtheir gallant crews. Prom this region went the rugged troops whomWashington inquired about as they boldlj marched into his camp, andwas answered by Cilley, of Nottingham: Theyre full-blooded Yan-kees, by , from Rockingham County, that have never yet turned their backs on any man. And here also were enlisted the New-Hamp-shire companies whom Washington found on guard at West Point theday after Arnolds treason, and to wliom he said : I lielieve I can trustyou. Here we may listen to Aldrichs sweet Piscataqua poem: To let the wherry listless go And, wrapt in dreamy joy,Dip, and surge idly to and fro,Like the red harbor-buoy. 79. 80 And then to hear the muffled tolls From steeples sliin and white,And watcli, among the Isles of Shoals, The Beacons orange light. In rambling about these quaint old streets, you may come upon thelaw-offlce of Daniel Wel)ster; the lightning-rod put up l)y BenjaminFranklin; the colonial-built Athenieuni, on Market Square, witli itsgreat library and museum; the Warner mansion, built in 1718-23, ofbricks brought from Holland, with interiors of panelled wood; theUnited-States building, erected during the administration of Pierce, and from its top overlooking the sea, the swift Pis-cataqua, and the Isles of Shoals; the office of the New-HampshireGazette, which dates its beginning from 1756; the old EpiscopalChurch of St. John, containing tlie lirst organ used in America, andimported in 1713 by Thomas Brattle for Kings Chapel, Boston; the
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