The Pine-tree coast . from personal feelings, his laproperty, recovered on an execution against Trelawneys heirs, was put in jeopardy whenMassachusetts asserted rights the soil ami g >vernm< nt t Maine. Jordans house at Spur-wink was burned in Phuips War, tin- incendiaries killinu. at tip- same time, Ami iBoaden, who kept the f< rrj there, ami who lived on Scarborough side — Wilmamsok, I. 624. w Fort Preble (named for Commodore Edward Preble), with Fort Scammell (named forColonel Alexander Scammell of tin- Revolutionary arm;,), constitute with Fort G sjes, in theinner harbor, the
The Pine-tree coast . from personal feelings, his laproperty, recovered on an execution against Trelawneys heirs, was put in jeopardy whenMassachusetts asserted rights the soil ami g >vernm< nt t Maine. Jordans house at Spur-wink was burned in Phuips War, tin- incendiaries killinu. at tip- same time, Ami iBoaden, who kept the f< rrj there, ami who lived on Scarborough side — Wilmamsok, I. 624. w Fort Preble (named for Commodore Edward Preble), with Fort Scammell (named forColonel Alexander Scammell of tin- Revolutionary arm;,), constitute with Fort G sjes, in theinner harbor, the defences of the ship channel of Portland, which the battery at Portland Beadis designed to augment, and it is to be hoped render more efficient, a- the heavy guns of tir newcruisers now throw shut witli eftVrt nearly <*i_i 111 miles. The channel forts, Preble and Scam-mell, were built in 1807-8, ami called, in derision, embargo forts, as they were said to be jned to keep our shipping in. rather than the enemy BLOCK HOUSE. THE MID COAST. OHAPTEK XI. A DAY IX PORTLAND. Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea.—Longj ellow. IF any one of the seaboard towns through which we have lately passed wouldrequire a volume to do it justice, Portland would be worth two, at least. This is a city set on a hill. Nature has thus furnished the pedestal onwhich the tall steeples rise with monumental effect. As it is but four milesfromthe open ocean up to the wharves, one has no sooner entered the shipchannel than he sees the city spires springing up in the distance. Thrown off the southern corner of Casco Bay, the high ridge on whichPortland1 is built just escaped becoming one of that magnificent archipelagoover which the city presides like a goddess of the sea, with her obsequiousvassals clustered about her feet. As wre look up at it from the harbor, this long peninsula, or ridge, takes theform of a saddle, with the business portion in the seat, and the residences
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