Home Life in Colonial Days
Author: first_name: Alice Morse
last_name: Earle
Language: English
Year: 1898

CHAPTER I<br />
HOMES OF THE COLONISTS<br /><br />

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a land magnificent with forest trees of every size and variety, but they had no sawmills, and few saws to cut boards; there was plenty of clay and ample limestone on every side, yet they could have no brick and no mortar; grand boulders of granite and rock were everywhere, y