American etchers. Reprinted from the Century magazine for February 1883, with a brief additional chapter from the New York Star (1886)
Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934 · New York, F. Keppel & co: · leaf 29
d. Next year MartinPring went sailing by, landing perhaps.Three years later, De Monts and Champlainsailed into what is now Gloucester harbor,naming it Le Beau Port. Again, a few years,and the admiral of New England, JohnSmith, flitted by. (If he landed there is norecord. The hotel registers of 1614… … but a prince renamed it Cape Ann, therebyrescuing the writer and innumerable otherbabies from being born Tragabigzanda-ans ! Now came the attempt to plant a colony. Compassion towards the fisherman and partlysome expectation of gain, raised in Englandthree thousand pounds for the purpose. Fishwere…
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