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Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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return to England on account ofa boil on liis neck, or to have a toothdrawn, we forget whicli—^but that is a meredetail. Virginia became a fixed fact, and in 1664was ceded to the Crown of Great Britain,which maintained jurisdiction over it untilabout the year 1776. On page 42 we re-produce the great Seal of Virginia. Theallegory is so strikingly and beautifullyobvious as to need no further elucidation. CHAPTER V. TREATS OP THE EARLY HISTORY OF MASSACHTJ8ETTS ANDMAKES MENTION OF A PILGRIM FATHER OR TWO, ALSOSHOWS WHAT A GOOD MEMORY THE AUTHOR HAS FORDATES. Massacliusetts was first settled by PilgrimFathers who sailed from England in theyear 1620 on board the May Flour^ givingdirections to the captain to set them downat some place where they could enjoy re-ligions freedom, trusting rather to hisknowledge of Navigation than of Theolo-gy to land them at the right place. Thinking wild savages least likely toentertain pronounced religious prejudices,the captain of the May Flour bethought
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46 LAND HOr him of America, and landed them hap*liaz-ardat Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the 21stof December, 1620. The Pilgrims madethemselves as comfortable on PlymouthRock as possible, and formed a treaty withthe Indians which lasted several days. The accompanying sketch not only accu-rately illustrates the event just narrated,but gives us a faithful and striking portraitof each of the Pilgrim Fathers, which vrillbe immediately recognized by all theiracquaintances. The drawing is made froma photograph taken on the spot by anartistic Pilgrim, who brought his camerawith him, hoping to turn a penny by pho-tographing the natives. We may hereincidentally remark that his first native subject, dissatisfied with the result of a sitting, scalped the artist and confiscated

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