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derive from having the railroad running through it. 

 But \Yhen I called his attention to the fact of its being 

 an island, he said, — "I have cause to remember 

 Newfoundland ; I was near being shipwrecked on 

 Cape Race." I presented Mr. Everett with a copy 

 of the Newfoundland Almanac, containing the general 

 statistics of the island ; and in return received from 

 him a copy of his last Oration, delivered at the 

 seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle of Bunker 

 Hill. I also presented His. Excellency, Governor 

 Briggs, with a copy of the Newfoundland Almanac, 

 and also Hon. Millard Fillmore, President of the Uni- 

 ted States, who expressed himself much pleased with 

 the amount of information which it contained. 



One cannot visit Boston without being reminded 

 that he is in the home of the Pilgrim Fathers, who 

 fled from persecution in their own land, and braved 

 the storms of the Atlantic Ocean, that amidst the 

 " rocking pines of the forest " they might find for 

 themselves a burial, but for their children and princi- 

 ples a home. The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, 

 from the Mayflower, on Plymouth Bock, took place 

 December 22nd, 1620, in the depth of winter, with 

 no place of abode, amid frost and snow, and sur- 

 rounded with savages and wild beasts. The first 



