some schools. The colony survived 

 the discouragements incident to start- 

 ing in the wilderness: they lived 

 down internal disagreements-; they 

 were not exterminated by Indian raids. 

 The enemy which conquered them 

 was more insidious. The deadly fever 

 which rose from the river was what 

 broke their courage, thinned their 

 ranks, and caused them, a few years 

 later, to abandon the homes, the 

 church, and the fort, which they had 

 built with such painful toil. 



Nothing remains now but a melan- 

 choly tower of the church around 

 which a young forest is springing. 

 The foundations of the fort are fast 

 crumbling away. Of " Tranquil Hall," 

 the largest and finest manor-house in 

 the town, there is but a pile of bricks, 

 which is guarded by the most splen- 

 did lilac-bush I ever saw. Its twisted 

 trunks are nearly as large as a man's 



