The Pine-tree coast . rting-point, at any rate. In the next phice, William Bradford, the faithful, minute, and conscientioushistorian of Plymouth Colony, tells us under the date of that there werealso this year some scattering beginnings made at Pascataway by Mr. DavidThompson, at ]\[onhegan and some other places by sundry others. If to thiswe add Avhat Levett says he heard at Cape Newagen in the winter of this sameyear, that ItMuiupiid was also taken up, it is just possible that Peraaquid^ , may have been one of those other places to which j^W^ Bradford refers, though we find nothing to
The Pine-tree coast . rting-point, at any rate. In the next phice, William Bradford, the faithful, minute, and conscientioushistorian of Plymouth Colony, tells us under the date of that there werealso this year some scattering beginnings made at Pascataway by Mr. DavidThompson, at ]\[onhegan and some other places by sundry others. If to thiswe add Avhat Levett says he heard at Cape Newagen in the winter of this sameyear, that ItMuiupiid was also taken up, it is just possible that Peraaquid^ , may have been one of those other places to which j^W^ Bradford refers, though we find nothing to confirm .g,^^.. such an inference. Nothing, therefore, is more improbable thanthat Pemaquid was settled before Ply-mouth, as we have heard it sometimesasserted. The Pilgrims Avould haveknown it, we think. And theywould never have long delayedopening a communication tend-ing so much to mutual ad-vantage. But all this isonly part and parcelof that obscurity ini -,.. which the earliestsettlements ofMaine are sohopelessly. involved. The j^iii^iitive settlers seem to have conducted their ~j^^^^ affairs like men who ^^v^- have moved out of theworld, and wliom the worldhas forgotten. I have said more thanintended, in the hope of givingsome check to those loose and mis-leading statements which, from frequentrepetition, gain credit among uninstructedvisitors, and are so hard to root out. Noplace on the whole coast has afforded such aplentiful crop of historical nettles as indulgent reader will, I trust, therefore appre-ciate the endeavor to give him the true countersign,before we go the rounds together. This tour of a S})ot not much larger than a country gentlemans privategrounds is certainly one of the most profitable experiences old or young couldpossibly have; not so much for what the place has to show, though in thisrespect it is by no means lacking, as for the crowding recollections itcalls up, the consistency it gives to things but imperfectly understood at best,and f
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