Senator Proctor's service to the country when the Cuban war began will never be forgotten.

And if you visit him this summer, let him know that you remember that Vermont gave the Morgan horse to the country. For the senator has highly determined that that race of horses shall not die out from the land.

Com Macdonoughs Farm-House,on Cumberland bay, Lake Champlain
are the American Forts Town of Hallsburgh River Saranac.the British Camp & head qof 5, Gio Provost.

CHAPTER V

MASSACHUSETTS

A YEAR or two before Champlain was discovering Bar Harbor and Lake Champlain, the Earl of Southampton, whom the reader and I ought to love, sent a Captain named Gosnold to discover our dear New England. For the young noblemen of Queen Elizabeth's time were an enterprising and adventurous set. They meant to beat the devil by checkmating Spain, and they thought a good way to checkmate Spain and the devil would be to plant Protestant colonies in North America. So the Earl of Southampton sent out Gosnold in a ship of happy omen, for she was called the Concord.

And Gosnold came up and saw our dear old Boston. And he sailed round Cape Cod, which people once called Cape Gosnold, in memory of

the Mount, and showing that we build upon a rock. And on the Island of Cuttyhunk, the

most southerly of the Elizabeth Islands, Gosnold