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that there should be an injunction to stop the operations, in the name 

 of the Commonwealth, unless a report was made. In the name of the 

 town officers he thanked the Institute for this visit. He said there 

 was a veil between us and the past which he hoped this learned so- 

 ciety would help to lift. He eulogized the Eev. John Wise, the first 

 minister, whose resting place was visited with interest, both by poli- 

 ticians aud ministers. He said by politicians, because the doctrine of 

 no taxation without representation was first uttered by the man who 

 sleeps in the tomb of John Wise. Mr. Wise took an interest in our 

 young country. The first training in old Chebacco was in 1683, and 

 John Wise was there, and here the military character of old Chebacco 

 began. In this connection he told the story of the Essex boy, w^ho 

 having come across the cubs of a bear was finally pursued by the old 

 bear herself but killed her by thrusting a pine knot into her open 

 mouth — an act which showed the courage to which he had been 

 trained, Mr. Wise having had a large influence in the training. 



Mr. Choate also exhibited a copy of an old Genevan bible, printed 

 in 1579, which was brought over by Capt. John Low and has remained 

 in the family ever since. It was translated by Miles Coverdale, aided 

 by John Rogers the martyr, and was printed over sixty years before 

 the first cup of cofi'ee was used in England, and eighty-seven years be- 

 fore the first cup of tea. There have been twelve crowned heads in 

 England, down to Victoria, since the book wds printed. He also ex- 

 hibited a long cane wdth ivory head and silver mounted, which is said 

 to have been made in 1578, a year before the book was printed. This 

 also had been in the family of Lows, and it derived additional interest 

 from the fact that the venerable Daniel Low had leaned upon it. It 

 bore the inscription, engraved upon the silver, " Owned by the family 

 in England, about 1578;" and above, "D. L., U. S. of America, Mch. 

 14, 1803." 



Mr. George D. Phippen, of Salem, was next introduced, and he 

 described the region of the Essex woods where Dr. Cutler had ram- 

 bled, led by the scent of the magnolia, as had the learned Oakes, the 

 genial Nichols and Osgood, with whom several of us have made excur- 

 sions. He then exhibited and described some of the specimens of 

 fiowering plants which had been collected, among which were the 

 Linncea borealis, named for the distinguished botanist, Linnaeus ; 

 Diervilla Canadensis, belonging to the same family ; Medeola Virginica, 

 or cucumber plant ; Viburnum, several species ; Prinos glabra, or ink- 

 berry; Cypripedium acaule ; Mitchella repens, or loveberry, having 

 always two blossoms to one fruit; Lysimachia gwadnybZia, having four 

 leaves around the stem, some varieties having more ; Pyrola rotundi- 

 folia, or round leaved pyrola; several forms of the Potentilla, the 

 Kalmia, etc. He also exhibited specimens of the holly and heath 



