OF BEGINNINGS 
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other garden herbs, with a great store of goodly oaks 
and walnut-trees, and chestnut-trees, ewe-trees and 
trees of sweetwood in great abundance/ 5 (This from 
Juet’s Journal.) 
Faint and scarce discernible in many places is the 
fourth and last path—the one worn by Puritan feet 
from the landing place at Long Point, where the first 
group of men from the Mayflower , well armed, were 
set ashore to explore the country, immediately after 
the signing of the Compact on the eleventh of Novem¬ 
ber, 1620. From this excursion they returned at 
night with a boat-load of juniper which delighted 
them with its fragrance.” 
Is not this a delightful touch—that it should be 
with these stern, pleasure repudiating, unyielding men 
even as it was with Hudson’s Dutch sailors, and the 
Cavaliers who came with Barlow 1 ? The sweet smells 
of the land, filling their nostrils, entranced them— 
and the first thing which they brought off to their ship 
was as much of the delicious spicy boughs as their boat 
would hold! Wherever men came to set foot on the 
shores of the new world, it is notable that fragrance 
met them; and over all the beauties and wonders to 
which the earliest writers bear witness, each in his 
own way, sweet odors drift, of flowers and fragrant 
gums and spices. 
All this was a new world, however, only to these 
