The Old Stone Mill
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TALES OF PURITAN LAND
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Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land
If the round tower at Newport was not Benedict Arnold's wind-mill, and
any one or two of several other things, it is probably a relic of the
occupancy of this country by Thorwald and his Norsemen. After coasting
Wonderstrands (Cape Cod), in the year 1007, they built a town that is
known to historians--if not in their histories--as Norumbega, the lost
city of New England. It is now fancied that the city stood on the Charles
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River, near Waltham, Massachusetts, where a monument may be erected, but
Island. After this tower--popularly called the old stone mill-was built,
left on another, the Indian race would vanish from this continent. The