Samuel Drake - Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

The sea is what you seldom tire of, especially where its nearness to the chief New England marts shows it crowded with sails bearing up for port. Craft of every build, flags of every nation, pass Agamenticus and its three peaks in endless procession – stately ships

"That court'sy to them, do them reverence

As they fly by on their woven wings."

Old Ocean parts before the eager prow. You fancy you see the foam roll away and go glancing astern. Here is a bark with the bottom of the Tagus, and another with the sands of the Golden Horn, sticking to the anchor-fluke; and here a smoke on the horizon's rim heralds a swifter messenger from the Old World – some steamship climbing the earth's rotundity; and yet water, they say, will not run up hill! When I looked forth upon this moving scene my lungs began to "crow like chanticleer." I waved my hat, and shouted "a good voyage" to sailors that could not hear me. I had no fear of listeners, for the Old Man of the Mountain tells no tales. To stand on a mountain-top is better, to my mind, than to be up any distance in a balloon. You have, at least, something under you, and can come down when you like. What a fulcrum Agamenticus would have made for the lever of Archimedes!

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"Et que passé cette rivière la côte tourne à l'Ouest et Ouest-Norouest plus de deux cens cinquante lieues," etc.

The monk André Thevet, who professes to have visited Norumbega River in 1556, says it was called by the natives "Agoncy."

According to the Abbé Maurault, Pentagoët, in the Indian vocabulary, signifies "a place in a river where there are rapids." On the authority of the "History of the Abenaquis," Penobscot is, "where the land is stony, or covered with rocks."

It is curious that three Italians – Columbus, Cabot, and Verrazani – should lead all others in the discoveries of the American continent.

Giambetta Ramusio, the Venetian.

Champlain's map of 1612 is entitled "Carte Geographiqve de la Novvelle France Faictte par le Sievr de Champlain Saint Tongois, Cappitaine Ordinaire povr le Roy en La Marine. Faict len 1612." All the territory from Labrador to Cape Cod is embraced in this very curious map. Some of its details will be introduced in successive chapters as occasion may demand. There is another map of Champlain of 1632, fort detaillé , but of less rarity than the first.

By Ben Perley Poore and John Romeyn Brodhead.

"Massachusetts Archives, French Documents," vol. i., p. 269.

Rev. B. F. De Costa's "Northmen in Maine."

"Mass. Archives, French Documents."

Ibid.

"Champlain's Voyages," edit. 1613. Mount Desert was also made out by the Boston colonists of 1630. The reader is referred for materials of Mount Desert's history to Champlain, Charlevoix, Lescarbot, Biard, and Purchas, vol. iv.

She was one of the queen's ladies of honor, and wife of the Duke of Rochefoucauld Liancourt.

Champlain: Mr. Shea says he was only a lay brother.

This has a resemblance to Kenduskeag, and was probably the present Bangor.

Charlevoix says the landing was on the north side of the island.

"History of Maine," vol. i., p. 80.

See Williamson, vol. i., p. 79; "Resolves of Massachusetts," July and November, 1787; "New York Colonial Documents," vol. ix., p. 594. Mr. De Costa has given a summary of these in his pleasant little book.

Lescarbot, vol. ii., p. 471.

Named for General John Thomas, of the Revolution.

Williamson's "History of Maine."

Jefferson had his Monticello, Washington his Mount Vernon.

Its Indian name was Passageewakeag – "the place of sights, or ghosts." It contained originally one thousand acres, which the settlers bought of the heirs of Brigadier Waldo at two shillings the acre. Belfast was the first incorporated town on the Penobscot. It suffered severely in the Revolution from the British garrison of Castine.

In 1797 there were twenty vessels owned in Penobscot River, two of which were in European trade.

The upper and larger part is called North Castine.

Castine was not incorporated under its present name until 1796. The Indian name of the peninsula was Bagaduce, or Biguyduce.

Gordon, vol. iii., p. 304.

The man who destroyed Falmouth, now Portland.

In 1759 Governor Pownall took possession of the peninsula of Castine, and hoisted the English flag on the fort. He found the settlement deserted and in ruins. — Gov. Pownall's Journal.

"The clumsy, shapeless coinage, both of gold and silver, called in Mexico máquina de papa , lote y cruz ("windmill and cross-money"), and in this country by the briefer appellation of "cobs." These were of the lawful standards, or nearly so, but scarcely deserved the name of coin, being rather lumps of bullion flattened and impressed by a hammer, the edge presenting every variety of form except that of a circle, and affording ample scope for the practice of clipping: notwithstanding they are generally found, even to this day, within a few grains of lawful weight. They are generally about a century old, but some are dated as late as 1770. They are distinguished by a large cross, of which the four arms are equal in length, and loaded at the ends. The date generally omits the thousandth place; so that 736, for example, is to be read 1736. The letters PLVS VLTRA ( plus ultra ) are crowded in without attention to order. These coins were formerly brought here in large quantities for recoinage, but have now become scarce." – William E. Dubois, United States Mint .

I think the name of "cob" was applied to money earlier than the date given by Mr. Dubois. Its derivation is uncertain, but was probably either "lump," or from the Welsh, for "thump," i. e. , struck money.

On an old map of unknown date Castin's houses are located here.

Sedgwick's Letter, Historical Magazine , July, 1873, p. 38.