Identifier: centurybookoffam00broo2 (find matches)
Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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into argument, merelyturned to his niece with a smile, and dropped into poetry. • T is distance lends enchantment to the view,And robes the mountain in its azure hue, he said. Come! all off for Old Point! To-day we are the immigrants. A delightful day was spent on that sandy spot where, of old, the storm-tossed Virginia colonists first found relief and solid ground, and gratefullycalled the land Point Comfort. The young people critically examined the two great hotels, they visitedthe White Squadron, they roamed about the green embrasured-fortress thatfronts the sea and gives a martial air to the little town that has grown upabout it. The boys studied the preparations for mounting the queer newdisappearing gun, the girls walked the whole circuit of the wide, water-filled moat, and felt almost like medieval maidens in some moated castle ofthe days of Ivanhoe or Ouentin Durward, while all the young people gazedwith equal interest upon the room that had been Jefferson Daviss prison, IB
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THE NATIVE AND THE IMMIGRANT. A struggle for possession in the early days of America. 92 THH CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS and the grove of live oaks on the great parade-ground, beneath which the boys and girls who havethe delightful experience of living inside a fortresswere bicycling or playing ball. After a most interesting trolley-trip to Hamptonand its famous school,— fit monument to the vigor,patience, and self-sacrifice of that true American,General Armstrong,— the whole party boarded the

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