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Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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rty. From this point they sailed along the coast for fifteen leagues, onFriday, and, seeing no good harbor, stood on in search of that whichCoppin said he knew. The day was stormy ; in the course of it therudder of the boat was unshipped, and, before they made land on theother side of the bay, she carried away her mast, split her sail, andwas near being lost altogether. At nightfall they reached and landedupon an island, since known as Clarks Island, because Clark, the■Mayflower^§ chief mate, was the first to step ashore. The next day,the 9th, they explored the island, and on Sunday, the 10th, theyrested, as men would be sure to rest who, on week-days, never forgot,under any circumstances, to ask in outspoken prayer the blessing ofGod upon their labors. On Monday, December llth,^ they crossed the harbor, sounding it 1 December 11, Old Style : December 21, New Style. In 1769 the landing of the Pil-grim Fathers was first commemorated at Plymouth, and the date in New Style was errone-
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<1-1u o <PO pa< HXH 1620.) DISCOVERY OF PLYMOUTH. 393 as they went, and finding it of good depth for small vessels. Alongthe shore of the mainland they found several brooks of plen- ^he expior-tiful waters pouring into the bay, and here and there were (an/oKhecleared fields, where the Indians had planted maize, ready Seeemwfor the use of new comers. If not the best of places, it was, Jembe?2i?^says Bradford, who was of the party, at least the best they ^- ^•-could find, and the season and their present necessity made them gladto accept it. The incident in itself is commonplace enough. Seventeen roughmen,i who, for the five previous days had been in an open boat, sleep-ing by night upon the bare ground, sometimes drenched with rain,sometimes half frozen with the cold, landed, as they had often donebefore, from their boat to seek anew a spot that would answer theirpurpose. History, nevertheless, has marked the act as an epoch. Noris its significance likely to be forgotten, al

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