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CAFE COD. 
They will go back to the ordination of every minister, 
and tell you faithfully who made the introductory prayer, 
and who delivered the sermon ; who made the ordaining 
prayer, and who gave the charge; who extended the 
right hand of fellowship, and who pronounced the bene¬ 
diction ; also how many ecclesiastical councils convened 
from time to time to inquire into the orthodoxy of some 
minister, and the names of all who composed them. As 
it will take us an hour to get over this plain, and there 
is no variety in the prospect, peculiar as it is, I will read 
a little in the history of Eastham the while. 
When the committee from Plymouth had purchased 
the territory of Eastham of the Indians, “it was de¬ 
manded, who laid claim to Billingsgate ? ” which was un¬ 
derstood to be all that part of the Cape north of what 
they had purchased. “ The answer was, there was not 
any who owned it. ^ Then,’ said the committee, ‘ that 
land is ours.’ The Indians answered, that it was.” This 
was a remarkable assertion and admission. The Pilgrims 
appear to have regarded themselves as Not Any’s repre¬ 
sentatives. Perhaps this was the first instance of that 
quiet way of “ speaking for ” a place not yet occupied, 
or at least not improved as much as it may be, which 
their des.cendants have practised, and are still practising 
so extensively. Not Any seems to have been the sole 
proprietor of all America before the Yankees. But his¬ 
tory says, that when the Pilgrims had held the lands of 
Billingsgate many years, at length, “ appeared an Indian, 
who styled himself Lieutenant Anthony,” who laid claim 
to them, and of him they bought them. Who knows 
but a Lieutenant Anthony may be knocking at the door 
of the White House some day ? At any rate, I know 
that if you hold a thing unjustly, there will surely be 
the devil to pay at last. 
