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Dr. Bowditch’s Study in Later Years.

NAT THE NAVIGATOR.

A LIFE
OF
NATHANIEL BOWDITCH.

FOR YOUNG PERSONS.

The House in which he lived when a little Child.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD.
1870.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
LEE AND SHEPARD,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
No. 19 Spring Lane.

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Boston, December, 1869.

Moved by feelings I could scarcely comprehend, while, atthe same time, they were most sweet to me, I was led to talkwith the pupils of the Warren Street Chapel on the Sundayafternoon after my father died. The subjects were his activeand good life and happy death. I am aware that some ofmy nearest friends thought it strange that my heart, on theoccasion of his death, was filled with a kind of joy ratherthan with sadness. To them I could merely say, that anevent so calm, and under such circumstances of sufferingas he then was, suggested to me nothing like real sorrow.I wished my young companions to feel as I did, and that, intheir minds, a quiet death following a good life should beclothed with beauty, and that they might thus be led to believethat, in accordance with the Scotch proverb, “A gudelife makes a gude end. At least it helps weel.” Horace Mannwas present during the address. Being deeply interestedin the education of the young, he requested me to preparefor his Common School Journal a sketch similar to that Ihad spoken. In accordance with that desire, a memoir wasprepared, and after its publication the Warren Street ChapelAssociation requested that it should be put, with somerevision, into this form. And as it was originally preparedfor, and dedicated to, the pupils of that institution,

SO I NOW DEDICATE IT

ANEW TO THE

GIRLS AND BOYS OF WARREN STREET CHAPEL.

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CONTENTS.