Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

38 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
Their restless toil subdued the savage earth,
And called a nation into glorious birth;
Their living floods with tides extending still,
Poured o'er the vales and climbed the highest hills;
And now the cottage that o'erlooks the scene
Of youthful revels on the village green;
The laughing fields where earliest verdure springs,
And Nature glories in the gifts she brings;
The flocks that gather in the peaceful shade,
Where once the deer in careless freedom played,
The spires that redden in the rising sunAll these will tell you what their hands have done."
Were there a locality of similar historic interest north
of the'White Mountains, many an annual pilgrimage it
would receive, its locality would be designated by some
enduring monument, and a pebble from the first cemetery
would be treasured as a mantel curiosity. But now, within
a pleasant foot ramble, it is rarely visited, and seems to be
almost unknown. When will some proper Monument be
erected to identify the spot, and secure to posterity a
locality which will with years increase in interest?
RAMBLE LXXXVI.:Marquis de Chastellux's Visit in 1782 - French -Fleet —Views of Portsiiaoxth, &co.
The year 1782 was noted locally as that in which the
French fleet laid in our harbor. We have already in previous rambles given a record of some of the events which
occurred, and now present a few more sketches, mainly
gathered from the account the Marquis de Chastellux gave
of his visit to Portsmouth while the fleet was lying in our
harbor. The Marquis was a Major-General in the French
army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau, with whom
he came from France to this country in 1780. In 1782, in
November, haying some leisure, he left Hartford on a visit