NOOKS AND CORNERS
OF THE
NEW ENGLAND COAST.
By SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE,
AUTHOR OF
"OLD LANDMARKS OF BOSTON," "HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX,"&c.
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Inscribed by Permission,
AND WITH SENTIMENTS OF HIGH RESPECT,
TO
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS.
Norumbega River and City.—Early Discoverers, and Maps of NewEngland.—Mode of taking Possession of new Countries.—Cruel Usage ofIntruders by the English.—Penobscot Bay.—Character of first Emigrantsto New England.—Is Friday unlucky?
CHAPTER II.
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND.
About Islands.—Champlain's Discovery.—Mount Desert Range.—Somesville,and the Neighborhood.—Colony of Madame De Guercheville.—Descent of SirS. Argall.—Treasure-trove.—Shell-heaps.—South-west Harbor.—Thenatural Sea-wall.—Islands off Somes's Sound
CHAPTER III.
CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT.
Excursion to Bar Harbor.—Green Mountain.—Eagle Lake.—IslandNomenclature.—Porcupine Islands.—Short Jaunts by the Shore.—SchoonerHead.—Spouting Caves.—Sea Aquaria.—Audubon and Agassiz.—DavidWasgatt Clark.—F. E. Church and the Artists.—Great Head.—BayeFrançoise.—Mount Desert Rock.—Value of natural Sea-marks.—NewportMountain, and the Way to Otter Creek.—The Islesmen.—North-eastHarbor.—The Ovens.—The Gregoires.—Henrietta d'Orleans.—YankeeCuriosity
CHAPTER IV.
CASTINE.
Pentagoët.—A Fog in Penobscot Bay.—Rockland.—The MuscongusGrant.—Colonial Society.—Generals Knox and Lincoln.—CamdenHills.—Belfast and the River Penobscot.—Brigadier'sIsland.—Disappearance of the Salmon.—Approach to Castine.—FortGeorge.—Penobscot Expedition.—Sir John Moore.—Capture of GeneralWadsworth.—His remarkable Escape.—Rochambeau's Proposal.—La Peyrouse
CHAPTER V.
CASTINE—continued.
Old Fort Pentagoët.—Stephen Grindle's Windfall.—Cob-money.—ThePilgrims at Penobscot.—Isaac de Razilly.—D'Aulnay Charnisay.—LaTour.—Descent of Sedgwick and Leverett.—Capture of Pentagoët, andImprisonment of Chambly.—C