. Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine . lared the Parson. Who knows but we have losta first-rate yarn through your for-getfulness ? As George could give no ac-count of this well-known beacon,we quote the following for thebenefit of those of ourreaders who may feel in-terested, manyof whom have,no doubt, no-ticed it w h e ndown the har-bor : — East of Long Island Head there isa low, rocky island on which stands a_ ,.._ singularly-shaped monument. It consists of a solid structure of stone, twelve feetin height, and forty feet square. All t
. Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine . lared the Parson. Who knows but we have losta first-rate yarn through your for-getfulness ? As George could give no ac-count of this well-known beacon,we quote the following for thebenefit of those of ourreaders who may feel in-terested, manyof whom have,no doubt, no-ticed it w h e ndown the har-bor : — East of Long Island Head there isa low, rocky island on which stands a_ ,.._ singularly-shaped monument. It consists of a solid structure of stone, twelve feetin height, and forty feet square. All the stones in this piece of masonry aresecurely fastened together with copper. Upon it stands an octagonal pyramidof wood, twenty feet high, and painted black. It is supposed that this monu-ment was erected in the earliest years of the present century, though the dateis not known. Its purpose was to warn vessels of one of the most dangerousshoals in the harbor. This island is called Nixs Mate, though for what reasonis not known. There is a tradition, unsupported by facts, that the mate of a. C^^^^?(!-»». j_0 Vn/ IID THROUGH THE WILDS. II vessel of which one Captain Nix was master, was executed upon the island, forkilling the latter. But it was known as Nixs Island, as long ago as 1636,and this would seem to dispose of the story. It is, however, true that severalmurderers and pirates have been hanged upon the island, and one William Flywas hanged there in chains in 1726 for the crime of piracy, on which occasion,the Boston News Letter informs us, Fly behaved himself very unbecomingly,even to the last. It is a part of the tradition above referred to that Nixs matedeclared his innocence, and asserted as a proof of it that the island wouldbe washed away. If any such prophecy was ever made, it has certainly been
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