. King's handbook of Boston harbor. hotel lookingdown across the distant islands and over the blue waters of the upper bay. 264 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. Here are the ruins of Fort Povvnal, which was built in 1758 by GovernorPownal of Massachusetts, at the cost of the British Parliament, to defendthe entrance to the Penobscot River. Seventeen years later, when Yankee-dom became rebellious, the British frigate Canseau sailed up here; and herblue-jackets destroyed the works and levelled the parapets of the best fortin Maine. After leaving Fort Point, the course lies up the famous Penobsc
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. hotel lookingdown across the distant islands and over the blue waters of the upper bay. 264 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. Here are the ruins of Fort Povvnal, which was built in 1758 by GovernorPownal of Massachusetts, at the cost of the British Parliament, to defendthe entrance to the Penobscot River. Seventeen years later, when Yankee-dom became rebellious, the British frigate Canseau sailed up here; and herblue-jackets destroyed the works and levelled the parapets of the best fortin Maine. After leaving Fort Point, the course lies up the famous Penobscot River,whose sources lie hundreds of miles away in the deer-haunted wilderness,among bright lakes where no navigation but that of canoes has yet beenattempted. Swinging round through the rapid currents of the BucksportNarrows, the great vessel advances to the wharf at Bucksport, a beautifulold village of farmers, fishermen, and shipbuilders, famous also among thefollowers of Wesley for its great East-Maine Conference Seminary. On. Steamship Katahdin, Boston and Bangor S. S. Co. the opposite shore rise the frowning walls and heavy batteries of Fort Knox,a modern work erected by the Government to seal up the Penobscot Riveragainst hostile ships, and protect the vast shipping and lumbering interestsof Bangor. About five miles above is the landing of Winterport, at the head ofwinter navigation. The river grows more narrow and sinuous, with pic-turesque highlands near its banks, and the scattered farmhouses of thehardy country-people of Maine. Many vessels are passed in the stream,bound in and out; and the indications of a prosperous commerce increaseon every side. A short stop is made at Hampden, which the British fleetcaptured in 1814, after a most wearisome attempt to catch the flying militiaregiments, drawn up here to give battle. The United-States corvette JohnAdams was, destroyed during this farcical engagement. A few miles beyond, A/NGS IIANDBOOA OF BOSTON HARBOR. 265 the s
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