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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

360 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMQUTH.
Bank was by the river. The house was evidently built as
a sort of garrison, with a view of' safety from being burnt
by the Indians.
Feb. 4, 1660, we find " Leonard Weikes'" account fo1r
town services allowed. In 1662, he was a Selectman of
Portsmouth.
RAMBLE CXLVIII.
PThe Dead Elma on South. Ioad.
GREEN and fresh as early childhood is the general aspect
of Auburn-Street Cemetery. No wilted shrubbery, no decaying tree, is to be met with in its extensive avenues. It
seems more like a place of life than a residence for the
dead. But such is not the aspect of the whole vicinity
outside of its walls. Opposite its north-west corner on the
north side of the road, stands as a "Memento Mlori, "a huge
skeleton, sixty to sevent.y feet in height, with sinuous feet
stretching far beneath the soil, and fromn a body of masterdom size, extend five long weather beaten arms far into the.
air, seeming to say to all visitors to the spot,
"I am Old MortalityAs I now am. so you must be:
Once a fresh and vigorous tree
Was this sear Mortality. "
That old elm, on which the lightnings have so often
played, that it has been without a leaf for many years,
should not pass away, as it now appears to be gradually,
without a slight sketch of its eArly history. As trees
do not travel, they have not much to tell —but are content
with casting a cooling shade upon those who may come under their branches. Do you see the peciliar form of that
old trunk? It has the size of twenty feet in circumference