LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. [Pigeon Cove, Cape Ann.] [Map] [Head-piece] [Jacques Cartier] [Captain John Smith] [Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts] [Sir Humphrey Gilbert] [Fac-simile of first Map engraved in New England] [Tail-piece] [Mount Desert, from Blue Hill Bay] [Map of Mount Desert Island] [Samuel Champlain] [Head of Somes's Sound] [Echo Lake] [Cliffs, Dog Mountain, Somes's Sound] [The Stone Wall] [Entrance to Somes's Sound] [Professor Agassiz] [View of Eagle Lake and the Sea from Green Mountain] [Cliffs on Bald Porcupine] [Southerly End of Newport Mountain, near the Sand Beach] [Cave of the Sea, Schooner Head] [Cliffs at Schooner Head] [Devil's Den and Schooner Head] [Great Head] [The Ovens, Saulsbury's Cove] [Tail-piece] [Castine, approaching from Islesboro] [General Henry Knox] [General Benjamin Lincoln] [Fort Point] [View from Fort George] [Sir John Moore] [Fort Griffith] [Fort George] [Tail-piece] [Ruins of Fort Pentagoët] [Pine-tree Shilling] [Colbert] [Lobster Pot] [Tail-piece] [Old Fort Frederick, Pemaquid Point] ["The Land-breeze of Evening"] [Cotton Mather] [Ancient Pemaquid] [Charlevoix] [French Frigate, Seventeenth Century] [Hutchinson] [Monhegan Island] [Thatcher's Island Light, and Fog-signals, Cape Ann] [Graves of Burrows and Blythe, Portland] [Tail-piece (Burrows's Medal)] [Gorge, Bald Head Cliff] [Old Wrecks on the Beach] [The Morning Round] [What the Sea can do] [York Meeting-house] [Jail at Old York] [Pillory] [Stocks] [Old Garrison House] [Tail-piece] [Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from Kittery Bridge] [Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine] [Block-house and Fort, Kittery Point] [Sir William Pepperell's House, Kittery Point] [Sir William Pepperell] [Kittery Point, Maine] [Governor Langdon's Mansion, Portsmouth] [Tail-piece] [Whale's-back Light] [Portsmouth and the Isles of Shoals (Map)] [Shag and Mingo Rocks, Duck Island] [Meeting-house, Star Island] [The Graves, with Captain John Smith's Monument, Star Island] [Gorge, Star Island] [Tail-piece] [Cliffs, White Island] [Blackbeard, the Pirate] [Smutty Nose] [Haley Dock and Homestead] [Ledge of Rocks, Smutty Nose] [South-east End of Appledore, looking South] [Duck Island, from Appledore] [Laighton's Grave] [Londoner's, from Star Island] [Covered Way and Light-house, White Island] [White Island Light] [Tail-piece] [Wentworth House, Little Harbor] [Point of Graves] [Old House, Great Island] [Old Tower, Newcastle] [Gate-way, old Fort Constitution] [Sir Thomas Wentworth, Wentworth House, Little Harbor] [Marquis of Rockingham] [In the Wentworth House, Little Harbor] [Lady Hancock's Portrait in the Wentworth House] [Governor Benning Wentworth] [Baron Steuben] [Witch Hill, Salem] [Custom-house, Salem, Massachusetts] [Rebecca Nurse's House] [Procter House] [Birthplace of Putnam] [Putnam in British Uniform] [Endicott Pear-tree] [Tail-piece (Putnam's Tavern Sign)] [Washington Street, Salem] [Birthplace of Hawthorne] [Shattuck House] [Room in which Hawthorne was born] [The old Witch House] [Fragment of Examination of Rebecca Nurse] [Thomas Beadle's Tavern, 1692] [Interior of First Church, Salem] [Ireson's House, Oakum Bay, Marblehead] [Great Head] ["The Churn"] [Drying Fish, Little Harbor] [Unloading Fish] [A Group of Antiques] [Lee Street] [Tucker's Wharf—the Steps] [Gregory Street] [Lee House] [Town-house and Square] [St. Michael's, Marblehead] [Elbridge Gerry] [The Gerrymander] ["Old North" Congregational Church] [Samuel Tucker] [General Glover] [Fort Sewall] [Powder-house, 1755] [James Lawrence] [Glimpse of the Seamen's Monument and old Burial-ground] [Lone Graves] ["Sitting, stitching in a mournful Muse"] [The Hoe, English Plymouth] [Map of Plymouth] [Pilgrim Hall] [Brewster's Chest, and Standish's Pot] [Landing of the Pilgrims] [Carver's and Brewster's Chairs] [Mincing Knife] [Peregrine White's Cabinet] [Standish's Sword] [The Old Colony Seal] [Map of Plymouth Bay] [Champlain's Map.—Port Cape St. Louis] [Tail-piece] [The Pilgrims' first Encounter] [Building on the Site of Bradford's Mansion] [Site of the Common House] [The Allyne House] [The Joanna Davis House, Cole's Hill] [Plymouth Rock in 1850] [The Gurnet] [Watson's House, Clark's Island] [Election Rock, Clark's Island] [Church's Sword] [Tail-piece] [Provincetown, from the Hills] [Cohasset Narrows] [Highland Light, Cape Cod] [Washing Fish] [Mackerel.—A Family Group] [Pond Village, Cape Cod] [Picking and sorting Cranberries—Cape Cod] [Sand-hills, Provincetown] [Life-boat Station.—Trial of the Bomb and Line] [Tail-piece (A "Sunfish")] [Nantucket, from the Sea] [Map of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard] [Approach to Martha's Vineyard] [A Bit of Nantucket—the House-tops] [Last of the Whale-ships] [Whaling in the olden Time] [Whale of the Ancients] [E. Johnson's Studio, Nantucket] [Tail-piece] [Nantucket.—Old Windmill, looking oceanward] [Captured Porpoise and Blackfish] [The Blue-fish] [Blue-fishing] [Homes of the Fishermen, Siasconset] [The Sea-bluff, Siasconset] [Hauling a Dory over the Hills, Nantucket] [Light-house, Sankoty Head, Nantucket] [Tail-piece] [Newport, from Fort Adams] [Old Fort, Dumpling Rocks] [Old-time Houses] [Residence of Governor Coddington, Newport, 1641] [Newport State-house] [Commodore Perry's House] [Jewish Cemetery] [Jews' Synagogue, Newport] [Judah Touro] [The Redwood Library] [Abraham Redwood] [The Old Stone Mill] [The Perry Monument] [Tail-piece] [Boat Landing] [The Beach] [Cliff Walk] [The Cliffs] [A Newport Cottage] [Charlotte Cushman's Residence] [Spouting Rock] [The Dumplings] [Hessian Grenadier] [Coast Scene, Newport] [The Drive] [Purgatory Bluff] [Whitehall] [Washington Park, Newport] [D'Estaing] [Earl Howe] [Rochambeau] [Rochambeau's Head-quarters] [Louis XVI] [Military Map of Rhode Island, 1778] [Lafayette] [Baron Vioménil] [Trinity Church, Newport] [Chastellux] [Lauzun] [Mathieu Dumas] [Deux-Ponts] [De Barras] [Latour D'Auvergne] [Tail-piece] [Graves on the Bluff, Fort Road] [Tombstones, Newport Cemetery] [Perry's Monument] [Oliver Hazard Perry] [Friends' Meeting-house] [George Fox] [Charles Lee] [Mount Hope] [The Glen] [A Rhode Island Windmill] [William Barton] [Silas Talbot] [Prescott's Head-quarters] [Agricultural Prosperity] [From Butts's Hill, looking North] [Quaker Hill, from Butts's Hill, looking North] [Battle-ground of August 29, 1778] [King Philip, from an old Print] [Inscription on Dighton Rock] [Old Leonard House, Raynham] [New London in 1813] [New London Harbor, north View] [New London Light] [New London in 1781 (Map)] [Old Block-house, Fort Trumbull] [A Light-ship on her Station] [Court-house, New London] [Bishop Seabury's Monument] [Groton Monument] [Benedict Arnold] [Storming of the Indian Fortress] [Silas Deane] [Stephen Decatur] [Rustic Bridge, Norwich] [Old Mill, Norwich] [Signatures of Uncas and his Sons] [Uncas's Monument] [Arnold's Birthplace] [Elm-trees by the Wayside] [General Huntington's House] [Mansion of Governor Huntington] [Congregational Church] [Tail-piece] [Peter Stuyvesant] [Isaac Hull] [A Moss-grown Memorial] [Tail-piece]
NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS. "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
In many respects the sea-coast of Maine is the most remarkable of New England. It is serrated with craggy projections, studded with harbors, seamed with inlets. Broad bays conduct to rivers of great volume that annually bear her forests down to the sea. Her shores are barricaded with islands, and her waters teem with the abundance of the seas. Seen on the map, it is a splintered, jagged, forbidding sea-board; beheld with the eye in a kindly season, its tawny headlands, green archipelagos, and inviting harbors,
