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��Artists are said to find better stud- ies on Lake George. There nia}' be perhai)s more of manageable pict- uresqueness iu the combinations of its coves and cliffs ; but for larger pro- portioned landscapes, to be enjoyed by the eye, if not so easily handled b}' the brush and pencil, "VVinni- piseogee is immeasurably superior. Its artistic and infinite variety never wearies, while at Lake George the

��visitor forever feels the need of wider reaches in the mountain views, and richer combinations of the forest wild- ness, and longs for a glimpse now and then furnished by the New Hamp- shire lake. Winnipiseogee satisfies, its genial influences are peculiarly elevating, and all its various charms combine to prove that "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

��EDWARD GOVE'S INSURRECTION" OF 1683.

AMERICAN REBELLION.

BY J. C. SANBORN.

��-THE SECOND

��Before the Great Revolution of 1776 there were three smaller rebel- lious in the United States, or Provin- ces as they were called. One of these was Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, and another was that which took place on the coronation of AVilliam III as King of England. These two are well known, but between the former and the latter a small rebellion broke out in New Hampshire, which is not much known, but which should be more familiar, as it was the forerunner of the downfall of Andros in 1689.

New Hampshire, which was first settled in 1623, had been for half a century united with Massachusetts ; but when Charles II came to the throne of England in 1660 he wished to pun- ish the Massachusetts Puritans, and with this end in view made New Hampshire a i-oyal province, to have a governor of its own. As this sepa- ration from Massachusetts was against the wishes of the New Hampshire settlers, the king, hoping to conciliate them, named a council in his new prov-

��ince and called an assembly. This assembly, meeting in 1680, enacted a code of laws borrowed from those of Massachusetts. When the king saw these laws he rejected them as "fanat- ical and absurd," and, persuaded by Robert Mason, who hoped thus to fur- ther his own interests, he appointed Cranfield, a London official, who be- came deeply indebted to Mason, the first royal governor. Robert Mason, whose claims to the proprietorship of New Hampshire indirectly furnished one of the causes of the rebellion which is the subject of this article, was a grandson of Capt. John Mason, to whom, many years before, in con- nection with a baronet named Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the Plymouth Council had given an enormous grant, covering almost the whole of what is now Maine and New Hampshire. Afterward Mason and Gorges divid- ed, and the former took as his share the whole of modern New Hampshire. It was to give Robert Mason a con- trol over the settlers that Cranfield

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