WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Tales of an Old Sea Port / A General Sketch of the History of Bristol, Rhode Island, Including, Incidentally, an Account of the Voyages of the Norsemen, So Far as They May Have Been Connected with Narragansett Bay: and Personal Narratives of Some Notable Voyages Accomplished by Sailors from the Mount Hope Lands cover

Tales of an Old Sea Port / A General Sketch of the History of Bristol, Rhode Island, Including, Incidentally, an Account of the Voyages of the Norsemen, So Far as They May Have Been Connected with Narragansett Bay: and Personal Narratives of Some Notable Voyages Accomplished by Sailors from the Mount Hope Lands

Chapter 1: TALES OF AN OLD SEA PORT
By Wilfred Harold Munro
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

History - AmericanHistory - Other

About This Book

A regional history and collection of maritime narratives centered on a Rhode Island seaport and its Mount Hope peninsula, combining local legend about Norse voyages with archival research. It offers biographical sketches of notable townsmen, detailed accounts of specific commercial and privateering voyages, and personal journals that illustrate coastal trade, seafaring practices, and the town's social and maritime identity from early settlement onward.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tales of an Old Sea Port

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

Title: Tales of an Old Sea Port

Author: Wilfred Harold Munro

Release date: January 30, 2021 [eBook #64419]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by MFR, John Campbell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES OF AN OLD SEA PORT ***

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Tales of an Old Sea Port, by Wilfred Harold Munro

 

 

Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/talesofoldseapor00munro

 

 

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of Part I, II and III.

Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ⅓ ¼ etc; other fractions are shown in the form a/b, for example 21/95.

Display of Lat./Long. coordinates has been made consistent, with no space between the values, but with a space before N/S/E/W if present, for example 12°34′56″ N.

Changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.

 

 

 

TALES OF AN OLD SEA PORT

A GENERAL SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND, INCLUDING, INCIDENTALLY, AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES OF THE NORSEMEN, SO FAR AS THEY MAY HAVE BEEN CONNECTED WITH NARRAGANSETT BAY: AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF SOME NOTABLE VOYAGES ACCOMPLISHED BY SAILORS FROM THE MOUNT HOPE LANDS

BY

WILFRED HAROLD MUNRO

OF BROWN UNIVERSITY

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

1917

Copyright, 1917, by
Princeton University Press

Published November, 1917
Printed in the United States of America