 November we came to an anchor in the bay, which is a good harbor and pleasant bay, circled round, except in the entrance which is about four miles over from land to land, compassed about to the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper, sassafras, and other...  The Harvard Theological Review - Page 3231920Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts - 1841 - 552 pages
...error of the press. about distances on this unsurveyed 118 CAPE COD WELL WOODED. , CHAP. in the bay,1 which is a good harbour and pleasant bay, — ~- circled round, except in the entrance, which is about 1620. four miles over from land to land,2 compassed about to 1l. the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1841 - 536 pages
...error of the press, about distances on this unsurveyed 118 CAPE COD WELL WOODED. CHAP. in the bay,1 which is a good harbour and pleasant bay, -—^~ circled round, except in the entrance, which is about 1620. four miles over from land to land,2 compassed about to Nov. , ...... r 11. the very sea with... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1846 - 434 pages
...the wind being contrary, we put round again for the bay of Cape Cod : and upon the 1 1th of Nov'r, we came to an anchor in the bay, which is a good harbour...circled round, except in the entrance, which is about four miles over, from land to land, compassed about to the very sen, with oaks, pines, juniper, sassafras,... | |
 | Nahum Gale - Massachusetts - 1857 - 364 pages
...crescent shore. The Pilgrims were much pleased with their place of anchorage. They call it a " good harbor and pleasant Bay, circled round, except in the entrance, which is about four miles over from laud to land, compassed about to the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper, sassafras,... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - Massachusetts - 1865 - 242 pages
...and vpon the u. of Nouember* we came to an anchor in the Bay,9 which is a good harbour and pleafant Bay, circled round, except in the entrance, which is about foure miles ouer from land to x• land,'0 compafled about to the very Sea with Okes, Pines, Iuniper, Saffafras, and other fweet... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod (Mass.) - 1866 - 294 pages
...afterward it proved. Upon the llth of November we came to anchor in the bay, which is a good harbor and pleasant bay, circled round except in the entrance, which is about four miles over from land to land, compassed about to the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper, sassafras,... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - New England - 1871 - 254 pages
...anchored in Provincetown harbor November n, 1620, and Mourt in his Relation, says — "It is a good harbor and pleasant bay, circled round, except in the entrance, which is about four miles over from land to land, compassed about to the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper, sassafras,... | |
 | Famous historical scenes - 1875 - 648 pages
...the wind being contrary, we put round again for the bay of Cape Cod ; and upon the llth of November we came to an anchor in the bay, which is a good harbour...circled round, except in the entrance, which is about four miles over from laud to land, compassed about to the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper, and other... | |
 | New England - 1900 - 850 pages
...woods, which covered the shores even to the water's edge, have disappeared. Relation: We read in Mourt's "We came to an anchor in the Bay, which is a good harbour and pleasant Bay, circled round, except at the entrance, which is about foure miles ouer from land to land, compassed about to the very sea... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod - 1887 - 302 pages
...afterward it proved. Upon the llth of November we came to anchor in the bay, which is a good harbor and pleasant bay, circled round except in the entrance, which is about four miles over from land to land, compassed about to the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper, sassafras,... | |
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