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Title: Ancient dominions of Maine : embracing the earliest facts, the recent discoveries, of the remains of aboriginal towns, the voyages, settlements, battle scenes, and incidents of Indian warfare, and other incidents of history, together with the religious developments of society within the ancient Sagadahoc, Sheepscot, and Pemaquid precincts and dependencies
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Sewall, Rufus King, 1814-1903
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Maine Maine -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Maine -- History Revolution, 1775-1783
Publisher: Bath : Elisha Clark & Co. Boston : Crosby & Nichols
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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k the ship was anchored and well mooredunder an island, on which, as on St. George,^ the first-dis-covered and so named by them, now called Monhegan, it wasfound where a fire had been made; and near by the shells ofvery great eggs, bigger than goose eggs—together with thebones of fishes and beasts. Tliesc evidences of the presence ofhuman existence excited the curiosity of the ships company ;and having discovered a place on the island suitable to buildtheir shallop and fill their water, every way to their wishes,in their search they espied cranes stalking on the shoreof a little island adjoyning where it was afterward found thisbird had its haunt, to breed and rear its young ; and tothis day one of the islands off Boothbay Harbor is knownto every fisherman as well as to tradition as Heron Island,derived undoubtedly from the facts here given. The material for the new boat was now taken on shore,and her frame set up, while the ships crew digged for water, 1 Gilbert and Pophams voyage.
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PERIOD OF DISCOVERT. 61 and finding a spring, inserted an empty cask to make it well up, and in their digging found excel- May 20. lent clay for brick and tile. OCCUPATION OF SHIPs COMPANY. Yards and spars for the ships use were cut from the neigh-boring forest by some—^the shallop hastened forward byothers,—and great lobsters, rock-fish, and plaice were fished,— all the fish being well-fed, fat, and sweet to the taste. The soil of this island was broken with the spade andhoe for the first time; and various garden seedscommitted to the virgin earth, which in sixteen May 22.days grew eight inches, in what was but the crustand much inferior to the mould of the main land. Their wood and watering finished, fourteen musketeersand Pike men embarked to explore the neighbor-ing islands in the harbor ; landed on two of them May 24.and marched over them ; one of which was a milebroad and four or five miles in compass, — undoubtedly Squirrel Island and Cape Ne-wagen — the Nekrangan oft

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