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entrance within the stockade, claimed from the wife the privilege of enjoying inside the place of security, their contemplated debauch of fire-water. It would have been useless to have refused. For two days and nights, as long as the jug of rum lasted, the carousal continued, and finally terminated in a deep sleep. On awakening to soberness they claimed food, as also a return of their weapons, which they had voluntary given up on their first entering, and then took their departure peacefully for their "wigwams" in the woods. 

"The tall church spire, the last in the extreme distance, belongs to the oldest meeting-house in the town; and in that church the inhabitants were accustomed to assemble for Divine Worship, each man armed with his trusty gun in the case of need, sentinels being first placed on the tower to give timely notice of danger from skulking foes. 

"In this town, Count RUMFORD, and his second wife were born, the Countess being the daughter of the Rev. TIMOTHY WALKER.  SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, the inventor of the first recording Electric Telegraph, also married a descendant of this first Minister.  Its neighborhood, has been the birth-place of many other persons of note, who, though they may not have achieved a world's reputation, yet have won for themselves great names, and have done much good within their appointed sphere of usefulness.

"The following are conspicuous objects in the view.  Commencing on the left, is the dome of the Academy; then a small square-bell-tower, this belongs to the High School; the next is the steeple of the Unitarian Church; the three-storied one to the Baptist.  The next, is the South Presbyterian; then a small square steeple is seen, belonging to the Universalists; the highest steeple belongs to the State House; the square gothic tower to the Episcopal; that with pointed pinnacles, to the Methodist; the next, a small dome, to the Court House building; the  one, with a square tower two stories high and pointed spire, to the new Presbyterian; and the last, in the extreme distance, as before alluded to, is the old North, built by the first settlers."

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