Let us walk in Leyden Street.--The way Plymouth was built.--Governor Bradford's Corner.--Fragments of Family History.--How Marriage became a civil Act.--The Common-house.--John Oldham's Punishment.--The Allyne House.--James Otis and his Sister Mercy.--James Warren.--Cole's Hill, and its obliterated Graves.--Plymouth Rock.--True Date of the "Landing."--Christmas in Plymouth, and Bradford's Joke.--Pilgrim Toleration.--Samoset surprises Plymouth.--The Entry of Massasoit.--First American Congress.--To Clark's Island.--Watson's House.--Election Rock.--The Party of Discovery.--Duxbury.--Captains Hill and Miles Standish.--John Alden.--"Why don't you speak for yourself?"--Historical Iconoclasts.--Celebrities of Duxbury.--Winslow and Acadia.--Colonel Church.--The Dartmouth Indians 283 CHAPTER XIX. PROVINCETOWN. Cape Cod a _Terra incognita_.--Appearance of its Surface.--Historical Fragments.--The Pilgrims' first Landing.--New England Washing-day.--De Poutrincourt's Fight with Natives.--Provincetown described.--Cape Names.--Portuguese Colony.--Cod and Mackerel Fishery.--Cod-fish Aristocracy.--Matt Prior and Lent.--Beginning of Whaling.--Mad Montague.--The Desert.--Cranberry Culture.--The moving Sand-hills.--Disappearance of ancient Forests.--The Beach.--Race Point.--Huts of Refuge.--Ice Blockade of 1874-'75.--Wreck of the _Giovanni_.--Physical Aspects of the Cape Shores.--Old Wreck at Orleans 304 CHAPTER XX. NANTUCKET. The old Voyagers again.--Derivation of the Name of Nantucket.--Sail from Wood's Hole to the Island.--Vineyard Sound.--Walks in Nantucket Streets.--Whales, Ships, and Whaling.--Nantucket in the Revolution.--Cruising for Whales.--The Camels.--Nantucket Sailors.--Loss of Ship _Essex_.--Town-crier.--Island History.--Quaker Sailors.--Thomas Mayhew.--Spermaceti.--Macy, Folger, Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin 324 CHAPTER XXI. NANTUCKET--_continued._ Taking Blackfish.--Blue-fishing at the Opening.--Walk to Coatue.--The Scallop-shell.--Structure of the Island.--Indian Legends.--Shepherd Life.--Absolutism of Indian Sagamores.--Wasting of the Shores of the Island.--Siasconset.--Nantucket Carts.--Fishing-stages.--The Great South Shoal.--Sankoty Light.--Surfside 343 CHAPTER XXII. NEWPORT OF AQUIDNECK. General View of Newport.--Sail up the Harbor.--Commercial Decadence.--Street Rambles.--William Coddington.--Anne Hutchinson.--The Wantons.--Newport Artillery.--State-house Notes.--Tristram Burgess.--Jewish Cemetery and Synagogue.--Judah Touro.--Redwood Library.--The Old Stone Mill 356 CHAPTER XXIII. PICTURESQUE NEWPORT.