So as by law he could defend the cause
Of poor distressed plaintiff, when he brought
His case before him and for help besought.
Above all other men he loved those
Who gospel truths most faithfully unclose,
Who were with grace and learning fully fraught.

MORTON'S NEW ENGLAND'S MEMORIAL.

The ancient town of Plymouth has probably about as much resemblance to
what it was two hundred years ago, as an ante-diluvian at a like age
had to his boyhood. Were Governor Bradford, whose worth is more
quaintly than poetically delineated in the above lines, Captain Miles
Standish, Master Thomas Prince, or any other worthies of those days of
peaked hats and falling bands to revisit the scenes of their pilgrim
labors, I fancy that they would find it difficult at first to
recognize them. By the eternal features, only, of nature, the
sparkling waters of the bay, the waving line of its shore, and by the
eminences not wholly levelled, would the site be identified, and the
likeness traced. Only with memory, assisted by these marks, might they
be able, as the moonbeams fell upon their pale faces, and they stroked
their solemn beards, to exclaim--here stood _our_ Plymouth.

As it presented itself that day to the eyes of Sir Christopher
Gardiner, surrounded by his Indian escort, it seemed an inconsiderable
village lying on the slope of a hill, dropping towards the sea. A
broad street, some eight hundred yards long, led down the hill, and
was crossed nearly in the middle by another, the ends of which were
protected by gates made of solid planks--the fourth end, viz: that on
the hay, being without any barricade. The houses were rude and small,
constructed of hewn planks, and stood in areas, around which were
thrown fences made also of plank, serving as very effectual stockades
against any sudden attack, and bidding defiance to the simple enginery
of the natives. Near the centre was the Governor's house (built in
like manner), and in front of it, at the intersection of the streets,
a square block, answering the purposes of a fort, and mounted with
four patereros, or small cannon, commanded the streets and four points
of entrance. On the top of the hill, a large square edifice with a
flat roof, whereupon were placed six cannons, shooting balls of four
or five pounds, dominated the surrounding country. The upper part of
this building served for a fort, and the lower for public worship and
meetings generally. On the whole, as agai