In the ancient and populous county of
Hampshire there was no lack of leaders or of soldiers for a service which promised either honor or profit.
The districts in New
Hampshire in which the senators are chosen immediately by the people, are nearly as large as will be necessary for her representatives in the Congress.
THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New
Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts of such a visit.
That of New
Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New
Hampshire, of New York to Kentucky, and of Kentucky to Lake Champlain.
They were respectable persons, well and widely known in that part of
Hampshire. Besides these, there were two strangers staying in the house.
There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New
Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
I remember the delight with which some six months ago I picked up the first "Dolittle" book in the
Hampshire bookshop at Smith College in Northampton.
Eastwards rise the Appalachians, the very highest point of which, in New
Hampshire, does not exceed the very moderate altitude of 5,600 feet.
They traveled in this way through the east of the Union, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and New
Hampshire; the north and west by New York, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin; returning to the south by Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana; they went to the southeast by Alabama and Florida, going up by Georgia and the Carolinas, visiting the center by Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana, and, after quitting the Washington station, re-entered Baltimore, where for four days one would have thought that the United States of America were seated at one immense banquet, saluting them simultaneously with the same hurrahs!
The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New
Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
It is related, with regard to the borough of Queen's Crawley, that Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine
Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament; and the place, from the day of that illustrious visit, took the name of Queen's Crawley, which it holds up to the present moment.
Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New
Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call the only perfect specimen of a Greenland or River Whale in the United States.