1From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 14 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
...with those on the other side of the channel and but a continuation of the same soil. From this mountain we saw the whole channel, the whole town and harbor of Dover. The harbor is but a basin and the town but a village. We saw three small vessels on the stocks, building or repairing, and fifteen or twenty small craft, chiefly fishing sloops and schooners, in the harbour. It has not the...