Maine Pioneer Settlements ..., Volume 3W.B. Clarke Company, 1909 - Maine |
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... Saco River 107 • The Site of the Vines Settlement 110 Mouth of Saco , opposite Camp Ellis 115 Biddeford Pool , where Vines Wintered , 1616-1617 120 Inner Mouth of the Pool . . 129 An Ancient Wharf , the Pool . 134 The Old Graveyard on ...
... Saco River 107 • The Site of the Vines Settlement 110 Mouth of Saco , opposite Camp Ellis 115 Biddeford Pool , where Vines Wintered , 1616-1617 120 Inner Mouth of the Pool . . 129 An Ancient Wharf , the Pool . 134 The Old Graveyard on ...
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... Saco . Chocorua , from the Saco . Conway Meadows , Pegwacket 388 • 389 390 391 394 • · 396 398 400 401 403 404 407 • • • 407 • 412 420 424 PAGE White Horse Ledge , Pegwacket 427 · The Wadsworth ILLUSTRATIONS 29.
... Saco . Chocorua , from the Saco . Conway Meadows , Pegwacket 388 • 389 390 391 394 • · 396 398 400 401 403 404 407 • • • 407 • 412 420 424 PAGE White Horse Ledge , Pegwacket 427 · The Wadsworth ILLUSTRATIONS 29.
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... Saco Block House , 1730 . Mount Willey Echo Lake Chart of Lovewell's Pond Autograph , John Lovewell . Lovewell's Pond Lovewell Monument Battle Brook Tailpiece , The City · 430 432 441 444 447 450 · · 453 · · 455 • 457 458 461 463 465 ...
... Saco Block House , 1730 . Mount Willey Echo Lake Chart of Lovewell's Pond Autograph , John Lovewell . Lovewell's Pond Lovewell Monument Battle Brook Tailpiece , The City · 430 432 441 444 447 450 · · 453 · · 455 • 457 458 461 463 465 ...
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... bold , lore of old Saco , when Fort Mary's sunset - gun brought The gray dusk into Night's deepening fold . THE FORERUNNERS Sflocate THE FORERUNNERS F one were to search Rain is on the roof; visions crowd the stair...
... bold , lore of old Saco , when Fort Mary's sunset - gun brought The gray dusk into Night's deepening fold . THE FORERUNNERS Sflocate THE FORERUNNERS F one were to search Rain is on the roof; visions crowd the stair...
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... Saco Rivers . Another river is shown upon the Ducreux map , for which no name is given , but which M. Ventromile supposes to be the Presumpscot . One error of the Jesuit historian is to be noted , he locates the Sokoquies between Boston ...
... Saco Rivers . Another river is shown upon the Ducreux map , for which no name is given , but which M. Ventromile supposes to be the Presumpscot . One error of the Jesuit historian is to be noted , he locates the Sokoquies between Boston ...
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Abenake aborigine acres Alger ancient Bagnall Black Point Blue Point Boaden Bonython Boston built cabin Cammock Cammock's Neck Cape Elizabeth Captain Casco Bay Casco Neck Champlain church Cleeve and Tucker Cleeve's coast colony court doubtless Drogeo Dunstan eastward England English Ferry fire fishing garrison Gorges Gorges patents grant Hakluyt hath haue Henry Jocelyn hither House Island Indian interest Isles of Shoals John Winter Kittery land later letter Levett lived located Lygonia Mackworth Maine Maine province marshes Massachusetts miles mill mouth Nature night occupancy once Owascoag patent Pemaquid perhaps Piscataqua Pond Prout's Neck province Puritan Richard Vines Richmond's Island Rigby road Robert Jordan Rocks romance rude Saco River sailed sands savages says Scarborough Scottow settlement settlers ship shore smokes Sokoki Sokoki Trail Spurwink story tide tion Trelawny verdure voyage waters wild winds Winnock's Neck Winter Harbor Winthrop woods
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Page 271 - Were I the Moor, I would not be lago : In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 124 - The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told.
Page 124 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, — A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winge'd snow...
Page 71 - T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow; The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear.
Page 67 - Country men, let not the meannesse of the word fish distaste you, for it will afford as good gold as the Mines of Guiana or Potassie, with lesse hazard and charge, and more certainty and facility.
Page 316 - And, round and round, over valley and hill, Old roads winding, as old roads will, Here to a ferry, and there to a mill; And glimpses of chimneys and gabled eaves, Through green elm arches and maple leaves...
Page 457 - God we might find them ; and we had rather trust Providence with our lives, yea, die for our country, than try to return without seeing them, if we might, and be called cowards for our pains.
Page 87 - tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
Page 245 - I tell thee, gold is more plentiful there than copper is with us; and for as much red copper as I can bring, I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their...
Page 250 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...