CHAPTER

I. The birthplace of Israel

II.  The youthful adventures of Israel

III.  Israel goes to the wars; and reaching Bunker Hill in time to be of service there, soon after is forced to extend his travels across the sea into the enemy’s land

IV.  Further wanderings of the Refugee, with some account of a good knight of Brentford who befriended him

V. Israel in the Lion’s Den

VI.  Israel makes the acquaintance of certain secret friends of America, one of them being the famous author of the “Diversions of Purley.”  These despatch him on a sly errand across the Channel

VII.  After a curious adventure upon the Pont Neuf, Israel enters the presence of the renowned sage, Dr. Franklin, whom he finds right learnedly and multifariously employed

VIII.  Which has something to say about Dr. Franklin and the Latin Quarter

IX.  Israel is initiated into the mysteries of lodging-houses in the Latin Quarter

X. Another adventurer appears upon the scene

XI.  Paul Jones in a reverie

XII.  Recrossing the Channel, Israel returns to the Squire’s abode—­His adventures there

XIII.  His escape from the house, with various adventures following

XIV.  In which Israel is sailor under two flags, and in three ships, and all in one night

XV.  They sail as far as the Crag of Ailsa

XVI.  They look in at Carrickfergus, and descend on Whitehaven

XVII.  They call at the Earl of Selkirk’s, and afterwards fight the ship-of-war Drake

XVIII.  The Expedition that sailed from Groix

XIX.  They fight the Serapis.

XX.  The Shuttle

XXI.  Samson among the Philistines

XXII.  Something further of Ethan Allen; with Israel’s flight towards the wilderness

XXIII.  Israel in Egypt

XXIV.  Continued

XXV.  In the City of Dis

XXVI Forty-five years

XXVII.  Requiescat in pace

ISRAEL POTTER

Fifty Years of Exile

CHAPTER I.

The birthplace of Israel.

The traveller who at the present day is content to travel in the good old Asiatic style, neither rushed along by a locomotive, nor dragged by a stage-coach; who is willing to enjoy hospitalities at far-scattered farmhouses, instead of paying his bill at an inn; who is not to be frightened by any amount of loneliness, or to be deterred by the roughest roads or the highest hills; such a traveller in the eastern part of Berkshire, Massachusetts, will find ample food for poetic reflection in the singular scenery of a country, which, owing to the ruggedness of the soil and its lying out of the track of all public conveyances, remains almost as unknown to the general tourist as the interior of Bohemia.