Word: plymouth
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...alarmed, readers of the Magenta, at the ominous title of this contribution. I take it for granted that you know that the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the hospitable shore of Plymouth in the year 1620, and were received by the kindly attentions of Samoset and his warriors. In consequence of this little historical episode, a small stone called Plymouth Rock has obtained some celebrity, and is the foundation on which the Puritanical inhabitants of this little town build their hopes of prosperity in this world and salvation in that which is to come. I shall spare you all this...
...golden month of October, according to the glowing account of mine host of the Samoset, Plymouth presents attractions to the sportsman and lover of natural scenery unsurpassed by those of any locality on the Atlantic coast. The climate is equable, being about twenty degrees cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than below the Cape. For a distance of some fifteen or twenty miles to the south and southwest of Plymouth the country is sparsely settled, and retains the wild beauty of its primeval state...
...Epicurus, and desires nothing better than a new lease of life, with permission to live on the Gurnet, with his dog and gun, and observe the revolution in thought which he foresees will take place within the next twenty-five years even among the fossilized inhabitants of old Plymouth. He informs us that game is plenty; and a brace of fat partridges hanging in the office, shot that day by a boy, serve to confirm his statement and make us eager for the fray. We soon retire, having arranged for an early start in the morning...