The Way to the Island.--The Pool.--Ancient Ships.--Old House.--Town Charter and Records.--Influence of the Navy-yard.--Fort Constitution.--Little Harbor.--Captain John Mason.--The Wentworth House.--The Portraits.--The Governors Wentworth and their Wives.--Baron Steuben 196 CHAPTER XIV. SALEM VILLAGE, AND '92. The Witch-ground.--Antiquity of Witchcraft.--First Case in New England.--Curiosities of Witchcraft.--Rebecca Nurse.--Beginning of Terrorism at Salem Village.--Humors of the Apparitions.--General Putnam's Birthplace.--What may be seen in Danvers 208 CHAPTER XV. A WALK TO WITCH HILL. Salem in 1692.--Birthplace of Hawthorne.--Old Witch House.--William Stoughton, Governor.--Witch Hill.--A Leaf from History 220 CHAPTER XVI. MARBLEHEAD. The Rock of Marblehead.--The Harbor and Neck.--Chat with the Light-keeper.--Decline of the Fisheries.--Fishery in the olden Time.--Early Annals of Marblehead.--Walks about the Town.--Crooked Lanes and antique Houses.--The Water-side.--The Fishermen.--How the Town looked in the Past.--Plain-spoken Clergymen and lawless Parishioners.--Anecdotes.--Jeremiah Lee and his Mansion.--The Town-house.--Chief-justice Story.--St. Michael's Church.--Elbridge Gerry.--The old Ironsides of the Sea.--General John Glover.--Flood Ireson's, Oakum Bay.--Fort Sewall.--Escape of the _Constitution_ Frigate.--Duel of the _Chesapeake_ and _Shannon_.--Old Burial-ground.--The Grave-digger.--Perils of the Fishery 228 CHAPTER XVII. PLYMOUTH. At the American Mecca.--Court Street.--Pilgrim Hall and Pilgrim Memorials.--Sargent's Picture of the "Landing."--Relics of the _Mayflower_.--First Duel in New England.--Old Colony Seal.--The "Compact."--First Execution in Plymouth.--Old "Body of Laws."--Pilgrim Chronicles.--View from Burial Hill.--The Harbor.--Names of Plymouth.--Plymouth, England.--Lord Nelson's Generosity.--Plymouth the temporary Choice of the Pilgrims.--The Indian Plague.--Indian Superstition.--Who was first at Plymouth?--De Monts and Champlain.--Champlain's Voyages in New England.--French Pilgrims make the first Landing.--Why the Natives were hostile to the Pilgrims of 1620.--Confusion among old Writers about Plymouth.--Among the Tombstones of Burial Hill.--The Pilgrims' Church-fortress.--What a Dutchman saw here in 1627.--Military Procession to Meeting.--Ancient Church Customs.--Puritans, Separatists, and Brownists.--Flight and Political Ostracism of the Pilgrims.--Their form of Worship.--First Church of Salem.--Plymouth founded on a Principle 261 CHAPTER XVIII. PLYMOUTH, CLARK'S ISLAND, AND DUXBURY.