They missed the public amusements to which they were accustomed in their own country, and complained of the superstitious observance of Sunday, when "singing, fiddling, card-playing and bowling were forbidden." Foreigners were not welcome guests in this town of prejudice.

The sailors of the French fleet had already been the cause of one riot.

Gallatin's letters show that this aversion was fully reciprocated by him.
The neighboring country had some points of interest.

No Swiss ever saw a hill without an intense desire to get to its top.

They soon felt the magnetic attraction of the Blue Hills of Milton, and, descrying from their summit the distant mountains north of Worcester, made a pedestrian excursion thither the following day.