New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-20
FROM PLYMOUTH FAY.
From Our Occasional Connecticut Correspondent
CLARK's ISLAND, IN PLYMoUTh BAY,

From Our Occasional Connecticut Correspondent
CLARKs ISLAND, IN PLYMoUTi BAY,
August IL, 1867. !
IL my place of Summer sOjOurn were some locality
frcquented by people of fashion during the heats
of sultry August-some noted watering-place, like
Newport, Cape Moy, or Saratoga, to which all tae
world gees up once year, should never presume
to vary my Occasional correspondence from Con-
necticut' with letter descriptive Of spot so well
and so widely known But, though the name Of
Plymouth is famous few people know much about
the secluded little village to which this famous
name belongs. As vet, pilgrimage to Foreiathers
Rock makes no part Of fashionable tour dare
say, however, that many feel quiet curiosity re-
spectiDg place ut once So celebrated and 50 OBJ
scure, and would be willing to learn something more
than they know already OF it's present aspect and
condition. They will be somewhat surprised, per-
bsps, at being told that the popular notions, obtained
by reading Hemans's poem and Pierponts odes, are
not exactly truthful conceptions. The waves of
the bay" are not continually "dashing high upon
stern and rOckbOund coast" Us many have been led
10 suppose. Indeed, the shores of Plymouth Bay
are mostly long beaches OF shelving sands varied
by extensive salt meadows and marshes. Neither is
the famous rock, upon which the Aiay flowers pas
sengers dIsembarked, an immense boWld5r OF granite
living covered with eternal SUR and foam, at the
foot of beetDg cliff three hundred feet in hight
On the contrary, il forms part OF the beaten horse
track in the roadway, at the head OF very ord-
nary-loOking wharf. It's surface some three feet
across is 80 level and little elevated above the
rest of the highway path, that accumuiahons OF
dust or mud must sometimes be cleared away, IN
order TO afford TO visitors the sight Of It for which
they seeS. Here, part of the pavement OF an
obscure and dirty alley, tre1den under foot OF man
and beast, often covered with filth, mud and mre,
lies the notable rock, whose NAME 10 often men,
toned in speech, sermon and Grafton, is familiar TO
the ears Of the American nation, and whose iame is
sounded even beyond the sea upon whose shore it
used TO lie.
Now, though ! am by no means DESTROYS TO see
T." the halowed ground where first the pilgrims
trod converted into promenade for crowds of
inere PeSsureseching, dawdliDg bellies and dandles,
/ think that at least once in lifetime every de-
scendant from New. England ancestry should
visit, with reyerentia purpose. the brthplace of
the Yankee nation. As an Indictment 10 he per-
formanco OF this pious duty, have SCI forth the
averuent that even Newport Itself presents no
greater or more numerous natural attractions as q
place for seaside resort, than does Plymouth FOR
quiet beauty the view from the pazzls Of the Samo-
set House is unequaed. The spacious and-locked
bay, begrt BY the sweeping cOast-hne Twenty-Five
miles in extent lies full before the almirac spcc-
iator, as handsome sheet of water as ever
sparkled in the SUD- On the left, the spire of King
stOn church rises from surrounding trees. Further
on, the bald crown and scanned side OF Captain 4
Hill afford prominent landmarks for the mariners
that guide yoadcE distant bSEhs, Whose s,il,, LAc