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Title: The past and the present
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Denison, Frederic, 1819-1901
Subjects: Rhode Island -- Description and travel Narragansett Bay (R.I.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Providence, J. A. & R. A. Reid
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tained from the summit ofBeacon Hill, near the islands centre. Per-haps this should be visited first, and fromthis point roads and paths may be selected toall other points. The hill is found on theright of the only real road running com-pletely across the island. Of course the peat bogs will not be for-gotten in your explorations, for they willtalk to you of ancient days. As you travel over the island forget not tovisit the old Burying Ground and ponder thenames and epitaphs on the moss-mantledstones. Among the inscriptions you willread of one, a most deserving man, who wasborn in 1622 and became one of the originalsettlers of this fair isle: — Here lyes interred thebody of Mr. James Sands, Seniour. aoed 73 years. Departed this life March ye 13,1695. You see Old Mortality was gettingblind, and so inverted his G. The Palatine Light. — The richest traditonwhich the old Islander? delight to relate, is the story of the burning Palatinefamous by Whittiers fine poem, ship, madeand Danas
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Buccaneer. The tale about the ship isshrouded in the obscurity of tradition. As 62 NARRAGANSETT SEA AND SHORE. narrated by the islanders the story is brieflythis : About 1719or 1720a German vesselladen with emigrants from the Palatinate, aformer political division of Germany, sailedfor the West Indies. On the passage a mutinyhad arisen,the captain had been killed and thepassengers robbed. The ship was driven bya storm upon Long Point, Block Island. Thepassengers and crew were all landed, exceptone lady, who refused to leave the vessel.The ship was subsequently fired and burnedwith the unfortunate lady on board. Mostof those landed from the ship were sick andsoon died. Three women alone survived,and two of them lived and died on the island.These two women were called Tall Kat-tern, and Short Kattern. The former mar-ried a negro, and some of their descendantsare said to be still living. The more prosaic story is that a Germanvessel in distress landed at the island, leftseveral sick pass

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