Chapter 15 A WALK TO WITCH HILL.

"Do not the hist'ries of all ages

Relate miraculous presages,

Of strange turns in the world's affairs,

Foreseen by astrologers, soothsayers,

Chaldeans, learned genethliacs,

And some that have writ almanacs?"

Hudibras.

BIRTHPLACE OF HAWTHORNE.

In 1692 Salem may have contained four hundred houses. A few specimens of this time