Inscribed by Permission,

AND WITH SENTIMENTS OF HIGH RESPECT,

TO

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS.

Norumbega River and City.-Early Discoverers, and Maps of New England.-Mode of taking

Possession of new Countries.-Cruel Usage of Intruders by the English.-Penobscot Bay.-

Character of first Emigrants to New England. -Is Friday unlucky?....

CHAPTER II.

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND.

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About Islands.--Champlain's Discovery.-Mount Desert Range.-Somesville, and the Neighbor-

hood.-Colony of Madame De Guercheville.-Descent of Sir S. Argall.-Treasure-trove.—

Shell-heaps.-South-west Harbor.-The natural Sea-wall.-Islands off Somes's Sound...... 27

CHAPTER III.

CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT.

Excursion to Bar Harbor.-Green Mountain.--Eagle Lake.-Island Nomenclature.-Porcupine

Islands. Short Jaunts by the Shore.-Schooner Head. - Spouting Caves. Sea Aquaria.-

Audubon and Agassiz.-David Wasgatt Clark.-F. E. Church and the Artists.—Great Head.

-Baye Françoise.-Mount Desert Rock.-Value of natural Sea-marks.-Newport Mount-

ain, and the Way to Otter Creek.-The Islesmen.-North-east Harbor.-The Ovens.-The

Gregoires.-Henrietta d'Orleans.-Yankee Curiosity.

CHAPTER IV.

CASTINE.

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Pentagoët.-A Fog in Penobscot Bay.-Rockland.—The Muscongus Grant.-Colonial Society.-

Generals Knox and Lincoln.-Camden Hills.-Belfast and the River Penobscot.-Brigadier's

Island.-Disappearance of the Salmon. -Approach to Castine. -Fort George. — Penobscot

Expedition.—Sir John Moore.-Capture of General Wadsworth.-His remarkable Escape.—

Rochambeau's Proposal.-La Peyrouse.

CHAPTER V.

CASTINE―continued.

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Old Fort Pentagoët.-Stephen Grindle's Windfall.-Cob-money.-The Pilgrims at Penobscot.-
Isaac de Razilly.-D'Aulnay Charnisay.-La Tour.-Descent of Sedgwick and Leverett.-
Capture of Pentagoët, and Imprisonment of Chambly.-Colbert.-Baron Castin.—The younger