Repository: UIHistories Project: Convocation - 1896 (Forefathers' Convocation) [PAGE 12]

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coast 1 in the shallop of the ship over the waters and journoj ed upon the land for days together, seeking the Ivsi I tion for their future home, The safe harbor, < ti iStem outlook from n sloping back round, the 1 it ma 1 advantages for defense, the quality of the soil u 1 ami thf ven sweet brook' and the "many delicate springs" as Bradford called them, decided the matter, and thr\ brought tin* Mayflower upon tin* last twont\ li\ miles of her great voyage, past the point where the twin Gurnet lights now stand, and where it Is said that Thorwa d the old Norse chieftain found his grave, with ;i liristian cross at the head and foot, six hundred \ trs b( foi . past Saquish Point and In full view of

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dimmer in the Old World to stern winter in the New, 1 i w e|] i IH«\ know i hat.

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