The Cliff Walk.--Newport Cottages and Cottage Life.--Charlotte Cushman.--Fort Day and Fort Adams.--Bernard, the Engineer.--Dumplings Fort.--Canonicut.--Hessians.--Newport Drives.--The Beaches.--Purgatory.--Dean Berkeley 373 CHAPTER XXIV. THE FRENCH AT NEWPORT. Behavior of the Troops.--Monarchy aiding Democracy.--D'Estaing.--Jourdan.--French Camps.--Rochambeau, De Ternay, De Noailles.--Efforts of England to break the Alliance.--Frederick's Remark.--Malmesbury and Potemkin.--Lord North and Yorktown.--George III.--Biron, Duc de Lauzun.--Chastellux, De Castries, Vioménil, Lameth, Dumas, La Peyrouse, Berthier, and Deux-Ponts.--The Regiment Auvergne.--Latour D'Auvergne.--French Diplomacy 386 CHAPTER XXV. NEWPORT CEMETERIES. Rhode Island Cemetery.--Curious Inscriptions.--William Ellery.--Oliver Hazard Perry.--The Quakers.--George Fox.--Quaker Persecution.--Other Grave-yards.--Lee and the Rhode Island Tories.--Coddington and Gorton.--John Coggeshall.--Trinity Church-yard.--Dr. Samuel Hopkins.--Gilbert Stuart 398 CHAPTER XXVI. TO MOUNT HOPE, AND BEYOND. Walk up the Island.--"Tonomy" Hill.--The Malbones.--Capture of General Prescott.--Talbot's Exploit.--Ancient Stages.--Windmills.--About Fish.--Lawton's Valley.--Battle of 1778.--Island History.--Mount Hope.--Philip's Death.--Dighton Rock.--Indian Antiquities 407 CHAPTER XXVII. NEW LONDON AND NORWICH. Entrance to the Thames.--Fisher's Island.--Block Island.--New London.--Light-ships and Light-houses.--Hempstead House.--Bishop Seabury.--Old Burial-ground.--New London Harbor.--The little Ship-destroyer.--Groton and Monument.--Arnold.--British Attack on Groton.--Fort Griswold.--The Pequots.--John Mason.--Silas Deane.--Beaumarchais.--John Ledyard.--Decatur and Hardy.--Norwich City.--The Yantic picturesque.--Uncas, the Mohegan Chieftain.--Norwich Town.--Fine old Trees.--The Huntingtons 420 CHAPTER XXVIII. SAYBROOK. Old Saybrook.--Disappearance of the Yankee.--Old Girls.--Isaac Hull.--The Harts.--Connecticut River.--Old Fortress.--Dutch Courage.--The Pilgrims' Experiences.--Cromwell, Hampden, and Pym.--Lady Fenwick.--George Fenwick.--Lion Gardiner.--Old Burial-ground.--Yale College.--The Shore, and the End 441 INDEX 451 [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.