The Pine-tree coast . oon as they reached they had picked up enough English to be able to give an account ofthemselves and of their country, they proved the means, under God, —these are Gorges own words — of turning his attention to colonization. NowGorges was himself one of the originators of the Popham colony of have here his own story of how he became one. And we can hardly bein doubt, therefore, about Weymouths having carried back the unimpeachableevidence of his discovery, in the persons of these Indians, since the first stepsfor planting a colony at the Kennebec beg
The Pine-tree coast . oon as they reached they had picked up enough English to be able to give an account ofthemselves and of their country, they proved the means, under God, —these are Gorges own words — of turning his attention to colonization. NowGorges was himself one of the originators of the Popham colony of have here his own story of how he became one. And we can hardly bein doubt, therefore, about Weymouths having carried back the unimpeachableevidence of his discovery, in the persons of these Indians, since the first stepsfor planting a colony at the Kennebec began within a twelvemonth or so. We know further, that when Champlain went into the Kennebec, a littlelater than Weymouth, the savages of that river told him that five of theirmen had been killed by the people of a strange ship, and her anchoragewas pointed out to him. This voyage of Weymouth, and the coming of the colonists of 1607, arethings so closely related that the last was, beyond all question, the outcome of. FORT POPHAM, KESNEBEC RIVER. the first. We find, therefore, a remarkable sequence of events pointing usunerringly to the Kennebec as Weymouths great river. An unfinished fort, roofed over to protect it from the weather, impotent,enough in its ability to afford protection, stands out on a bare ledge, at Hun-newells Point, where we pass into the This point of land formspart of the ancient peninsula of Sabino, of which the Popham colonists tookpossession for their fort and settlement; so that the present fort stands for amemorial to the first English fortification ever erected in New England, aswell as to the ill-starred colony itself. It is probable that this colony did more to discourage emigration than tohelp it. It fell to pieces from its own inherent weaknesses. That it was anearly failure can hardly admit it to rank with later successes, as much as wemay have wished it a better fortune. The world does not take great pride inits failures. There are,
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