This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...ake the rough places habitable. Trees were felled, soil was broken, and the Indians took unkindly to their appearance. Their hardships were increased by unfordable tidewater rivers and wet meadows. Everything appeared to be against them. The lesson of their endurance looms up before us, as a precious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...ake the rough places habitable. Trees were felled, soil was broken, and the Indians took unkindly to their appearance. Their hardships were increased by unfordable tidewater rivers and wet meadows. Everything appeared to be against them. The lesson of their endurance looms up before us, as a precious legacy of their bravery, and their deter- imli WHERE THE FIRST SERVICES OF THE PHILLIPS CHURCH WERE HEI. U. mination to succeed. When threatened with hunger. Captain Clap tells us, When I could have meal and water and salt boiled together, it was so good, who could wish better? And it was not ac-counted a strange thing in these days to drink water, and to eat Samp or Hominy without Butter or Milk. Indeed it would have been a strange thing to see a piece of roast beef, mutton, or veal, though it was not long before there was roast goat. In 1631 there was not a loaf of bread in anybodys house but the governors. But there was no despair. Through the V POINT IN 1749. I. CMNKl) liy FRANCIS E. BLAKE. request of the governor, Ireland was appealed to for a supply of food. A ship, known as the Lion brought over a good supply of provisions, and there was rejoicing everywhere. Care, foresight, wisdom in the details of managing the colony were rewarded. The next few years improvements appeared on every hand. Ships kept coming. New prospects kept opening. With the Rev. Richard Mather, who chose the lot of these colonists of Dorchester, came in the same ship with him, in the year 1635, one hundred passengers, twenty-three seamen, twenty-three cows and heifers, three grass, its hills and meadows, its large and shady trees, and here and there scattered over the fields the cattle, standing and watching their turn at the closing of the day, to be taken back...
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Very Good+ Photographs, maps; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 258 pages; 1901 Inquirer Publishing Company, South Boston. Original edition in publisher's dark blue cloth with ornate titles brightly stamped in gilt to cover and spine. Binding snug; boards sharp edged. Profusely illustrated with portrait photographs and photo views of homes and buildings. Several pages of illustrated ads at rear. Just mild silverfishing to the emulsion of the cloth along the board edges. Gilt lettering at spine just a little rubbed. A solid clean and tight copy. Uncommon. VG++