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Show 86 q6o. MAS S ACI-!US ETS BAY. bath. The next dav, therefore, he was fum moned before the - magifhates, who, with many ievere rebu kes and pio us exhor tation s, ordered him to be p ublicly whi p ped. The c:1ptain {lifled his j,H:ignat ion and refentmen t as much as po!1l ble, and as the pu nilu men t, from the fre q ue ncy of it, vas not att e n ~ ed with any gre at deg r e of ignomi ny or difg race, he mixed with the beil: company, was well received by them, and they were app! rently good friends.- /\ t length the time of the fl: ation expired, and he was recalled : he went, therefo re, wi th feeming concern to t ;;ke leave of his \Vorthy fr ie nds ; and that they might [pend one more happy day toge ther before their final feparation, he invit ed the prin cipal .m.1gi il: rates and [elect men to dine with him on hoa rd his fhip, upon the day of his departure. They acce p ted the invitation, and nothing could be more joyous and convivial than the entertainment which he gave them. At length the fatal moment arrived that was to feparate them : the anchor was apeak, the fails were unfurled and nothing was wanting but the fignal to get under way. The captain, after taking an affetl:ionate leave of his worthy friends, accompanied them upon deck, where the boatfwain and crew were in readinefs to receive th em. He there thanked them afre!h for the civilities they had !hown him, of which, he faid, he iliould retain an eternal remembrance; and to which he wifhed it had been in his power to have made a more adequate return. One point of civility only remained to be ad- .jufted between them, which, as it was in hi5 power, fo he meant moil: juftly to recompenfe to them. He then reminded them of what had paffed, and ordering the crew to pinion them, had them brought one by one to the gang- way; where the boat[ wain fhipped off their £11irts, and with a cat of nine tails laid on the back of each forty firipes fave one. They were then, amidft the lhouts and acclamations of the crew, lhoved into their . ( ' I PIS CAT A QJJ A. N E W H A M P S H I R E. tl:eir boats : and the captain immediately getting under way, failed for Engbnd *. The. rzth of Oc:tober I embarked on board his majefly's {hip t~1e WI.nchefl:er, of fifty guns, captain H ale commander, for the nver P1fcataqua, in New Hamplhire; and we came to an an~ chor there the next day, after a pleafant paffaae. The capital of this province is Portfmouth, 0 which is fituated upon the river: it ~s an inconfiderab le place, and chiefly built of woo~. Very little can be [aid of the province of New Hampfh1re, materially different from what has be n faid of Maffac~ ufets-bay.-The climate, produce, trade, government, relig10n, and manners of ~t are ~1 uch the fame.-There are fu ppofed to be about 4o,ooo mhabttants, 8ooo militia, :md 6 or 700 provincial troops.- There are only two miBion ari es of the church of England, and one of theii has lately applied to be removed to Rhode Hland.-The chief articles for exportation are filh, cattle, lhips, of which they annually build near zoo, and mafts for the royal navy. Thefe are made of the white pi~e, and are, I believe, the fine{l: in the world, many of them bemg forty yards long, and as many inches in diameter. They never cut them down but in times of deep fnow, as it would be impoffible in any other feafon to get them down to t~e river .. When the trees are fallen, they yoke feventy or eighty pair of oxen, and drag them along the fnow. It is exceedin~ ly difficult to put them firfl: in motion, which they call ra1fing them; and when they have once eft c:ted this, they . * This fiory has lately appeared in one of the Englilh News Papers, told With much humour, and with fome di fFerence refpeCl ing the occafion and mode of the captain's punilhment. The nuthc., cannot take upon himfelf to fay. which account may be moft exacr, but he l!:1s chofcn to abide by th at which he heard at Bofton. They either of them r~n e to charatlerife the people, and to anfwer the author's purpofe in relating it, 7 never |
