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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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facts, ) a skeleton was dug up from its burial placehere. The uniform position is a sitting posture, the kneesdrawn up, facing the cast toward the rising sun. Pieces ^of copper sometimes covered the head of the exhumedbody; and one skeleton had a copper knife-blade, set in ahandle of bone ; and it was the judgment of our Geologistand his medical assistant, that for two centuries, no burialhad been made in this Island cemetery of an extinct, butpeculiar people. The facts can leave no doubt, that thedeposition of shell offal, above described, was the work ofhimian hands; and that the locality of these deposits musthave been a center of vast populousness, more than twocenturies ago, when the same features marked this site ofancient ruin. Such are the facts, distinguishing the myste-rious vestiges of the aboriginal Ped-coke-gowake. ^ Jacksons Report, Geology of Maine, vol. 3, p. 57-58. 2 Jacksons Report, vol. 3, p. 57-58. 3 Head pieces of copper were angular and breast plates were square.
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ANTE-COLONIAL PERIOD. 19 REMAINS OF NEKRANGAN. Leaving this remarkable locality, and crossing tlie penin-sula formed by the Sheepscot and Damariscotta waters,some fifteen miles south-westerly, we reach the sea near thewest head of Townsend harbor, at the mouth of the Sheep-scot. At this point is the only ingress and egress, by aninland passage, to the magnificent harbor below. Thephysical features of this entrance are very peculiar; whichin the felicitous, expressive sounds of the aboriginal tongue,are described as the Ne-kran-gan—our gate-way.Here, enters the great shore trail from Pemaquid, by Winneganne, (meaning carrying place, or portage to theharbor,) for the Merrymeeting and Casco travel, of whichCape Ne-wagen, (doubtless an English corruption of theaboriginal Nekrangan,) forms the western wall. Here isanother remarkable locality of deep, unexplored, histor-ical interest. LOCAL FEATURES. The ruins near to Ped-coke-gowake of the cataract, atthe head-waters of the Damariscotta,

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