The RIVALS OF ACADIA, AN Old Story OF THE NEW WORLD. When two authorities are up, SHAKSPEARE. Boston: WELLS AND LILLY, COURT-STREET. 1827. 3 THE RIVALS OF ACADIA. CHAPTER I. Far on th' horizon's verge appears a speck- ON a bright day in the summer of 1643, a light pleasure-boat shot gaily across the harbor of Boston, laden with a merry party, whose cheerful voices were long heard, mingling with the ripple of the waves, and the music of the breeze, which swelled the canvas, and bore them swiftly onward. A group of friends, who had collected on the shore to witness their departure, gradually dispersed, till, at length, a single individual only remained, whose eyes still followed the track of the vessel, though his countenance wore that abstracted air, which shrewed his thoughts were detached from the pass |