The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-12-16
President OF the day Is seated in this

chair.
| witnessed a number of expert
| ments performed with the galvanic
battery, such as a dead dog kicking,
burning charcoal. zinc, plumbago.
etc. | took a shock from the battery
which was a pretty powerful one,
equal to 500 plates. The largest in the
world is, l believe. in London, which
has 1900 pairs of plates.
Up to this time nothing particular
has happened to myself. l spend the
day at the office the evenings mostly at
| home except one night in the week,
when l work at the office.
/ Sunday. July 18th I went to the
burying ground hill and traced out
the site Of the first fortifcation erect
ed by the Pilgrim fathers in this town.
The place where it once stood is now
covered With graves and nothing is to
be seen but an embankment thrown
up on all sides of the summit of the
hill On the south side of this si' %
are great quantities of bones and
shells. Il is a little south of the high
est summit OF the hill with nothing
save an elm tree 10 mark the spot.
Near this spot GOV Bradford was bur
led. He was the second governor Of
the colony. Standing ON this spot and
looking north across the bay a large
hill meets your eye. This is capt
Hill" SO named from its having been
the place where Miles Standish set
tied, and at the foot of which he
was buried This is in the present
town of Duxbury. where great cele-
bration of the day was held on the
4th of July. the present year. About
seven miles from Plymouth (South) is
a place called Ponds, where are the
remains of a once powerful tribe of
Indians. They are but few in number
very poor and miserable. In this
place are large iron works, nail fac
tory, anchor shops and a cotton fac
tory.
In Market Square is a large reser-
voir of water containing about 200
hogsheads 1t is under ground lined
with brick and arched over at the
top. The town is % miles long from
north to south and or in breadth
mostly sandy barren and uncultivat-
ed but not without exceptions. The
people are very bigoted, bitter and
prosecuting on the subject of Reli-
gion. In fact, nothing can surpass
the animosity of the different sects
, toward one another.
In the north part of the harbor are
the white flats. which at low water
are dry and hard. They are frequent
ed by fowlers In pursuit of game. On
one occasion two men and boy went
nntn hn Hnt OF In n
ing pulled their boat ashore rambled
about the fats. On returning to the
place where they had left their boat,
they discovered that the tide had risen
and drifted their boat at some consid-
cradle distance from them and they
were obliged to wait the approach of
the tide, which must inevitably over
whelm them. They were at length
discovered by people in town with
spy-glass who went off in a boat to
their assistance. They found the I'M
happy people up to their chins in wa
ter, the boy being elevated on one Of
the mems shoulders. While in this
situation the boy. in an anxious tone
inquired of his father what would be
come of all their corn now they were
going 10 be drowned.
On the southwest side of Buryng-
ground Hill are Inferred the bones of
Clark, one OF the first settlers
of Plymouth. having come to New
England in the Nayn0oWer, landing
first at Cape Cod but not finding it
convenient place of settlement. he in
company with l. or Il others in
shallop. of which he was mate left
the ship and craised up Massachu
setts Bay. and after landing in one or
two places. near night were ovcrtak
en- by a storm and the master was on
the point of running the vessel on the
breakers at Saquish Ca place between
the Gurnet and DuXbury) when Mr..
Clark encouraged the men to renew
their exertions at the oars, by which
means the vessel was brought under
the lee of small island at the
mouth of Plymouth Harbor, and lay
till next morning. The island is now
called by his name from the circum-
stances of his being the first European
that ever landed on It, At this time
there was another island near the
mouth of the harbor. but no island is
now to be seen. At low water, shoals
are to be seen where it is said to have
stood. An old gentleman died here
not long since who said he had been
told by his father that when he was
a boy he had seen Cat low water)
trees firmly bedded in the sand at
this place Mr.. Clark is believed to
have been native of England and
his monument (Which is still stand
ingl states that he was born in 1893;