The Pine-tree coast . s, in theareas of low-ground swamps, against which the sea has piled uj) the A RAMBLE IN OLD YORK. 45 As if to retrieve her mistakes here, nature has set up at one end of thiscoast a most oommaniling laiubuark. This is Mount Agamenticus, the extremeoutpost of the great Wliite Mountains. No sailor can mistake it for any otherland. It stands up solitary and alone, — a dome of green set on a low undulat-ing base, — the natural landfall and guide to one of the best harbors in ourwaters, and, as we have said, the only one for many leagues up and down thecoast. Agame
The Pine-tree coast . s, in theareas of low-ground swamps, against which the sea has piled uj) the A RAMBLE IN OLD YORK. 45 As if to retrieve her mistakes here, nature has set up at one end of thiscoast a most oommaniling laiubuark. This is Mount Agamenticus, the extremeoutpost of the great Wliite Mountains. No sailor can mistake it for any otherland. It stands up solitary and alone, — a dome of green set on a low undulat-ing base, — the natural landfall and guide to one of the best harbors in ourwaters, and, as we have said, the only one for many leagues up and down thecoast. Agamenticus is therefore no accidental freak of nature, as it would beif placed in some dangerous or inaccessible spot. Then again, Agamenticus River, next the sea, had been from a remote perioda principal habitation of the natives, until the plague came among them andswept them away like moths l)efore a consuming flame. There is a touch ofirony in the plea put forth at this time, that God destroyed these barbarians in. REMARKABLE ISUWEDEK 01 del to make room for the white peo-ple to come in and enjoy what hadJ been merely made ready to their Ti^g doctrine of the survival of the^ fittest is therefore neither new nornovel in our history. I have always thought that these 4(; THE PINE-TREE COAST. considerations had much to do with Sir Ferdinando Gorges choice ot Aga-menticus as the metropolis of his province. Mount Agamenticus thus stands a perpetual munument to the barbariansover whose villages the destroying angel passed and Icit a desert. Not eventhe mandate of a prince of the blood - could deprive them of this this respect they certainly have the advantage of Gorges, who has no monu-ment either in Old or New England, except an insignificant fort in PortlandHarbor. Consequences are thus not only unpitying, but sometimes grotesque. Yet it does seem as if York, of all places, ought to commemorate the nameof Gorges, that dark and scheming politician o
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