419 XXXXI. 433 XXXXII. 450 XXXXIII. 462 XXXXIV. 473 XXXXV. 479 XXXXVI. 489 XXXXVII. 496 XXXXVIII. 506 XXXXIX. 517 Errata and Addenda 531 INDEX 533 PLYMOUTH MEMORIES OF AN OCTOGENARIAN CHAPTER I. _Introductory._ In writing these memories I have in mind both the old and the young. With the old I may perhaps clear away some of the cobwebs which obscure their backward glance and reopen to their vision vistas of the past. With the young I may perhaps show how their fathers and grandfathers lived, and how through the results of their careers, the comforts and luxuries of the present generation have been evolved from the simple habits and ways of living of those who have gone before. An important lesson may be learned by the young, that, in this process of evolution, the achievements of today are only the culmination of the continuous labors of earlier generations; that all we are, and all we know, came to us from our fathers; and that the wonderful inventions and discoveries of which we boast, as if they were ours alone, would have been impossible without the lessons taught by the inventors and discoverers who blazed the way for our feet to tread.