Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

Selections from lber Wrtttnts
fifty miles of his residence without receiving an invitation to his
hospitable mansion; and the worthy captain to whom he was
apprenticed, received from him annually a cask of wine until the
period of his death.
Any sketch of Newport which did not include a particular account of the Old Stone Mill would be like the play with the part
of Hamlet left out. This singular edifice has excited more curiosity, interest, and speculation than any other remaining in our
country. Although it may have been used as a windmill, there
is every probability that it was erected for some other purpose;
and various are the conjectures as to what this purpose might
have been. No similar structure is to be met with in any section
of the country. Had the English found it here, it would seem
that they would have made some allusion to it; and had it been
erected subsequently, so singular a piece of architecture could
scarcely have failed to excite a passing notice. The most reasonable suppositions with regard to this relic of another age are that
it was either of ante-Columbian origin and built by the Northmen during their visit to this new world, which it is now generally admitted that they made, or it was erected for a fort by
traders who might have visited the island previous to its settlement in 1638. A particular description of this structure has been
transmitted to the Royal Society of Antiquarians at Copenhagen:
and from this, Professor Rafn, one of the most learned antiquarians
of Europe, in an article of great ability, has aimed to prove its
Scandinavian origin, and to identify it with similar edifices erected
in the north of Europe previous to the twelfth century. He says:
" There is no mistaking, in this instance, the style in which the
more ancient stone edifices of the North were constructed, which
belongs to the Roman or ante-Gothic architecture, and which,
especially after the time of Charlemagne, diffused itself from
Italy over the whole of the north and west of Europe, where it
continued to predominate until the close of the twelfth century;
that style which some authors have, from one of its most striking
characteristics, called the round-arch style, which in England is
denominated the Saxon, and sometimes the Norman, architecture.
From the characteristics of the ancient structure of Newport, I
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