Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
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Drake Samuel Adams. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

CHAPTER I. NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS

CHAPTER II. MOUNT DESERT ISLAND

CHAPTER III. CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT

CHAPTER IV. CASTINE

CHAPTER V. CASTINE —continued

CHAPTER VI. PEMAQUID POINT

CHAPTER VII. MONHEGAN ISLAND

CHAPTER VIII. FROM WELLS TO OLD YORK

CHAPTER IX. AGAMENTICUS, THE ANCIENT CITY

CHAPTER X. AT KITTERY POINT, MAINE

CHAPTER XI. THE ISLES OF SHOALS

CHAPTER XII. THE ISLES OF SHOALS —continued

CHAPTER XIII. NEWCASTLE AND NEIGHBORHOOD

CHAPTER XIV. SALEM VILLAGE, AND '92

CHAPTER XV. A WALK TO WITCH HILL

CHAPTER XVI. MARBLEHEAD

CHAPTER XVII. PLYMOUTH

CHAPTER XVIII. PLYMOUTH, CLARK'S ISLAND, AND DUXBURY

CHAPTER XIX. PROVINCETOWN

CHAPTER XX. NANTUCKET

CHAPTER XXI. NANTUCKET —continued

CHAPTER XXII. NEWPORT OF AQUIDNECK

CHAPTER XXIII. PICTURESQUE NEWPORT

CHAPTER XXIV. THE FRENCH AT NEWPORT

CHAPTER XXV. NEWPORT CEMETERIES

CHAPTER XXVI. TO MOUNT HOPE, AND BEYOND

CHAPTER XXVII. NEW LONDON AND NORWICH

CHAPTER XXVIII. SAYBROOK

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Islands possess, of themselves, a magnetism not vouchsafed to any spot of the main-land. In cutting loose from the continent a feeling of freedom is at once experienced that comes spontaneously, and abides no longer than you remain an islander. You are conscious, in again setting foot on the main shore, of a change, which no analysis, however subtle, will settle altogether to your liking. Upon islands the majesty and power of the ocean come home to you, as in multiplying itself it pervades every fibre of your consciousness, gaining in vastness as you grow in knowledge of it. On islands it is always present – always roaring at your feet, or moaning at your back.

Islands have had no little share in the world's doings. Corsica, Elba, and St. Helena are linked together by an unbroken historical chain. Homer and the isles of Greece, Capri and Tiberius loom in the twilight of antiquity. Thinking on Garibaldi or Victor Hugo, the mind instinctively lodges on Caprera or Guernsey. An island was the death of Philip II., and the ruin of Napoleon. In the New World, Santo Domingo, Cuba, and Newfoundland were first visited by Europeans.

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Much interest is attached to the shell heaps found on Fernald's Point and at Sand Point opposite. There are also such banks at Hull's Cove and elsewhere. Indian implements are occasionally met with in these deposits. It is reasonably certain that some of them are of remote antiquity. Williamson states that a heavy growth of trees was found by the first settlers upon some of the shell banks in this vicinity.17 Associated with these relics of aboriginal occupation is the print in the rock near Cromwell's Cove, called the "Indian's Foot." It is in appearance the impression of a tolerably shaped foot, fourteen inches long and two deep. The common people are not yet freed from the superstitions of two centuries ago, which ascribed all such accidental marks to the Evil One.

In my progress by the road to South-west Harbor, I was intercepted near Dog Mountain by a sea-turn that soon became a steady drizzle. This afforded me an opportunity of seeing some fine dissolving views: the sea-mists advancing, and enveloping the mountain-tops, cheated the imagination with the idea that the mountains were themselves receding. A storm-cloud, black and threatening, drifted over Sargent's Mountain, settling bodily down upon it, deploying and extending itself until the entire bulk disappeared behind an impenetrable curtain. It was like the stealthy approach and quick cast of a mantle over the head of an unsuspecting victim.

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