Early Explorations -- John Cabot -- Bartholomew Gosnold -- The Old Colony -- The Mayflower -- Plymouth -- Plymouth Rock -- Duxbury --Samoset -- Governor Bradford -- Miles Standish -- Cape Cod -- Chatham -- Barnstable -- Truro -- Highland Light -- Provincetown -- The Puritan Compact -- Quincy -- Marshfield -- Daniel Webster -- Minot's Ledge -- Nantasket -- Hingham -- Squantum -- Boston -- Shawmut --Boston Harbor and Islands -- Boston Common -- Beacon Hill and the State House -- The Codfish -- Boston Attractions -- Old South Church -- Old State House -- Faneuil Hall -- Old Christ Church -- Boston Fire -- Boston Development -- The New West End -- Parks and Suburbs --Brook Farm -- Newton -- Nonatum Hill -- Natick -- Cochituate Lake --Wellesley -- Sudbury -- The Wayside Inn -- Charlestown -- Old Ironsides -- Jackson's Head -- Bunker Hill -- Cambridge -- Harvard University -- Henry W. Longfellow -- James Russell Lowell -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Margaret Fuller -- Waltham -- Lexington -- Concord in Middlesex and its Bridge -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Henry D. Thoreau -- The Alcotts -- Massachusetts North Shore -- Lynn -- Nahant -- Swampscott -- Marblehead -- Salem and the Witches -- Beverley -- Wenham Lake -- Ipswich -- Andover -- Merrimack River -- Salisbury -- Concord in New Hampshire -- Manchester -- Nashua -- Lowell -- Lawrence -- Haverhill -- Newburyport -- Bridal of Pennacook -- Cape Ann -- Gloucester -- The Fisheries -- Norman's Woe -- Wreck of the Hesperus -- Land's End -- Thatcher's Island --Rockport -- Lanesville -- Granite -- The Fishermen. EARLY EXPLORATIONS.