We have come to famous Old Plymouth, to see the interesting spot where the first pilgrim-fathers landed. We paid a visit to the rock which it is said their feet first touched : it has been conveyed to the centre of the village. Here they landed after their perilous voyage in the “Mayflower” on the 22nd of December, 1620. Plymouth boasts of being the first town built by civilized beings in New England. The inhabitants celebrate the interesting anniversary of the landing every year.

We visited one of the lineal descendants of the pilgrims, soon after our arrival here. Mrs. Warren is the mother of Judge Warren (with whom we went); she is a most charming, delightful old lady, with the most gentle, amiable, and polished manners imaginable; her house was as delightful as herself! and was, I believe, certainly one of the original houses built by the pilgrim-fathers. Mrs. Warren seated me on a precious old-fashioned chair, that actually had come over in the “Mayflower.” I fancy there are pseudo-Mayflower chairs enough in various parts of Massachusetts to set up a score of upholsterers in business; but this, there is no doubt, really came over with the venerable voyagers, as it belonged to the descendant of one of the earliest governors. There were a number of old family pictures in the room, some of them by Copley, father of our greatly-distinguished Lord Lyndhurst (who was born, I think, in Boston).