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Dr. William Lauder Lindsay PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD PEOPLE ALMOST MENTIONED IN CAPE COD: DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Cape Cod: Dr. William Lauder Lindsay HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD CAPE COD: Every landscape which is dreary enough has a certain PEOPLE OF beauty to my eyes, and in this instance its permanent qualities CAPE COD were enhanced by the weather. Everything told of the sea, even when we did not see its waste or hear its roar. For birds there were gulls, and for carts in the fields, boats turned bottom upward against the houses, and sometimes the rib of a whale was woven into the fence by the road-side. The trees were, if possible, rarer than the houses, excepting apple trees, of which there were a few small orchards in the hollows. These were either narrow and high, with flat tops, having lost their side branches, like huge plum bushes growing in exposed situations, or else dwarfed and branching immediately at the ground, like quince bushes. They suggested that, under like circumstances, all trees would at last acquire like habits of growth. I afterward saw on the Cape many full grown apple trees not higher than a man’s head; one whole orchard, indeed, where all the fruit could have been gathered by a man standing on the ground; but you could hardly creep beneath the trees. Some, which the owners told me were twenty years old, were only three and a half feet high, spreading at six inches from the ground five feet each way, and being withal surrounded with boxes of tar to catch the canker worms, they looked like plants in flower pots, and as if they might be taken into the house in the winter. In another place, I saw some not much larger than currant bushes; yet, the owner told me that they had borne a barrel and a half of apples that fall. If they had been placed close together, I could have cleared them all at a jump. I measured some near the Highland Light in Truro, which had been taken from the shrubby woods thereabouts when young, and grafted. One, which had been set ten years, was on an average eighteen inches high, and spread nine feet with a flat top. It had borne one bushel of apples two years before. Another, probably twenty years old from the seed, was five feet high, and spread eighteen feet, branching, as usual, at the ground, so that you could not creep under it. This bore a barrel of apples two years before. The owner of these trees invariably used the personal pronoun in speaking of them; as, “I got him out of the woods, but he doesn’t bear.” The largest that I saw in that neighborhood was nine feet high to the topmost leaf, and spread thirty-three feet, branching at the ground five ways. This habit of growth should, no doubt, be encouraged; and they should not be trimmed up, as some travelling practitioners have advised. In one yard I observed a single, very healthy-looking tree, while all the rest were dead or dying. The occupant said that his father had manured all but that one with blackfish. In 1802 there was not a single fruit tree in Chatham, the next town to Orleans, on the south; and the old account of Orleans says: –“Fruit trees cannot be made to grow within a mile of the ocean. Even those which are placed at a greater distance, are injured by the east winds; and, after violent storms in the spring, a saltish taste is perceptible on their bark.” We noticed that they were often covered with a yellow lichen like rust, the Parmelia parietina. DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1829 December 19, Saturday: William Lauder Lindsay was born in Edinburgh as the initial son of James Lindsay of H.M. Sasine Office, Register House, Edinburgh, with Helen Lauder Lindsay, daughter of Captain Lauder. SCOTLAND NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Cape Cod: Dr. William Lauder Lindsay HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1844 At the royal high school in Edinburgh, William Lauder Lindsay was honored as the Medallist, or “Dux,” of his class. SCOTLAND LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Cape Cod: Dr. William Lauder Lindsay HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1845 THE BOOK OF BALLADS, edited by Bon Gaultier (Sir Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun). William Lauder Lindsay graduated from the royal high school in Edinburgh as Medallist, or “Dux,” of his class, and would enter the University of Edinburgh. SCOTLAND DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Cape Cod: Dr. William Lauder Lindsay HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1852 The Reverend George Gilfillan’s MARTYRS, HEROES, AND BARDS OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANT (Albert Cockshaw). William Lauder Lindsay received the degree of M.D. with his thesis on ANATOMY, MORPHOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LICHENS being awarded the highest (3-star) honor. Although he had needed to work as a clerk in the Register House during the entirety of his medical education, he nevertheless won several university prizes including the medal and 1st prizes in botany, and had found time to put together a valuable herbarium. SCOTLAND THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Cape Cod: Dr. William Lauder Lindsay HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1854 The Reverend George Gilfillan’s THIRD GALLERY OF LITERARY PORTRAITS (Edinburgh: Hogg). Completing one year’s service as resident physician of the City Cholera Hospital, Edinburgh, Dr. William Lauder Lindsay became an assistant physician in the Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries and was then appointed medical officer to Murray’s Royal Institution for the Insane at Perth, Australia. James George Frazer was born in Glasgow. Susan Edmonstone Ferrier died. John Gibson Lockhart died in Abbotsford. John Wilson died. SCOTLAND HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD NO-ONE’S LIFE IS EVER NOT DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY HAPPENSTANCE “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Cape Cod: Dr. William Lauder Lindsay HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD 1856 Herman Melville’s THE PIAZZA TALES included a slightly edited reprinting of BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER: ASTORY OF WALL STREET. In addition, this year Melville finished THE CONFIDENCE MAN: HIS MASQUERADE and in October began to journey abroad alone, for his health.1 From Scotland he went to MUMPERY Liverpool where he attempted one last meeting with Nathaniel Hawthorne (whom he told he had “pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated”), and then sojourned on in Malta, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and Italy. “Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand!” VOLCANISM Dr. William Lauder Lindsay’s A POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH LICHENS, COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR STRUCTURE, REPRODUCTION, USES, DISTRIBUTION, AND CLASSIFICATION (London: Lovell Reeve, 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, with numerous illustrations by the author). HIST. OF BRITISH LICHENS BOTANIZING (It seems evident that this must have been the text in Henry Thoreau’s library, that he would have been consulting for his remarks about the lichens in CAPE COD.) 1. His father-in-law Lemuel Shaw loaned him $1,500 for this journey, which would be the equivalent today of loaning someone $150,000 without security so that they could go off on a world tour (in other words, this was not something that anyone in their right mind would contemplate doing without having some really good reason –even if they never tell anyone what their reason is– some reason such as “I need to get you the hell away from my daughter.”). You may consult a record of this journey in JOURNAL UP THE STRAITS, OCTOBER 1, 1856-MAY 5, 1857, which has been published in 1935. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF CAPE COD:DR. WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN CAPE COD CAPE COD : Every landscape which is dreary enough has a certain PEOPLE OF beauty to my eyes, and in this instance its permanent qualities were enhanced by the weather. Everything told of the sea, even CAPE COD when we did not see its waste or hear its roar. For birds there were gulls, and for carts in the fields, boats turned bottom upward against the houses, and sometimes the rib of a whale was woven into the fence by the road-side. The trees were, if possible, rarer than the houses, excepting apple trees, of which there were a few small orchards in the hollows. These were either narrow and high, with flat tops, having lost their side branches, like huge plum bushes growing in exposed situations, or else dwarfed and branching immediately at the ground, like quince bushes.
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