Worcester: black-lead found in, 219, _n._; country of Nipnets, 240, _n._
Zones, the: New England, how placed in, 115-22; Aristotle’s theory of, 117.
EDMUND F. SLAFTER. JOHN WARD DEAN. WILLIAM B. TRASK. CHARLES H. BELL. JOHN MARSHALL BROWN. HENRY W. FOOTE. DAVID GREENE HASKINS, JR. ELBRIDGE H. GOSS.
[2] A Captain Wolliston is mentioned by Smith (_Description of New England_, III. Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. vi. p. 136) as the lieutenant of “one Captain Barra, an English pirate, in a small ship, with some twelve pieces of ordnance, about thirty men and near all starved,” whom Smith encountered in 1615, while a captive in the hands of the French freebooters. Though it has found a place in biographical dictionaries on account of two eminent men of one family from Staffordshire who bore it, the name of Wollaston is rarely met with. It is not found, for instance, in the present directories of either Boston or New York, and but twice in that of Philadelphia. It has been given to islands in both the Arctic and the Antarctic oceans, but the family to which it belonged seems to have originated in an inland English county. (Lower’s _Patronymica Britannica_). The Captain, or Lieutenant, Wolliston, therefore, whom Smith fell in with in 1615 may have been, and probably was, the same who ten years later gave his name to the hill on Quincy Bay. It is not likely that two Captain Wollastons were sea-adventurers at the same time. That it actually was the same man is, however, matter of pure surmise.
[7] III. _Mass. Hist. Coll._, vol. viii. p. 323.
[18] _Lowell Inst. Lectures_ of Mass. Hist. Soc. 1869, p. 147. Samuel Maverick, however, writing to Lord Clarendon in the year 1661, asserts that Morton had a patent. _Coll. N. Y. Hist. Soc._ 1869, p. 40.
[19] Palfrey (vol. i. p. 222) speaks of it as “a bluff.” This is an error. The slope from where Morton’s house stood to the water is very gradual.
[23] This View of Mount Wollaston is taken from Rev. Dr. William P. Lunt’s _Two Discourses on Occasion of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Gathering of the First Congregational Church, Quincy_, (p. 37). It represents the place very accurately as it appeared in 1840, and as it is supposed to have appeared from the time of the first settlement until recently. The single tree was a lofty red-cedar, which must have been there when Wollaston landed, as it was a large tree of a long-lived species, and died from age about 1850. The trunk is still (1882) standing; and, though all the bark has dropped off, it measures some 66 inches in circumference. The central part of the above cut, including the tree, has been adopted as a seal for the town of Quincy, with the motto “MANET.”