The Pine-tree coast . gland cargo ever shippedto a foreign port somewhat appeased Sir Wal-ters wrath against his nephew, as it more thansaved the charge of the voyage. In the letterfrom which these facts are taken, Raleigh angrilyrefers to his kinsman as my Lord Cobhamsman, but in a postscript he so far relents as tosay all is confiscate, but he shall have his ownagain. A not unpleasing mystery, therefore, hangsover these islands. When it breaks away, wesee a few poor fishermens huts perched on therugged cliffs of Appledore, to which a steep pathwinds up the rocks from the harbor shore. Weknow


The Pine-tree coast . gland cargo ever shippedto a foreign port somewhat appeased Sir Wal-ters wrath against his nephew, as it more thansaved the charge of the voyage. In the letterfrom which these facts are taken, Raleigh angrilyrefers to his kinsman as my Lord Cobhamsman, but in a postscript he so far relents as tosay all is confiscate, but he shall have his ownagain. A not unpleasing mystery, therefore, hangsover these islands. When it breaks away, wesee a few poor fishermens huts perched on therugged cliffs of Appledore, to which a steep pathwinds up the rocks from the harbor shore. Weknow not whence they came or how. We may never know. For a hundred years the islands afford few materials for history. Theywere first included in the charter granted to Gorges and Mason in 1G22, byAvhich the province of Maine was formally endowed with a name, if little this instrument does not mention the Shoals, it took in all islandslying within five leagues of the coast. Seven years later, in 1629, when the. SASSAFIJAS. ^<^sisiiB,i^^^^-^^j^^.^^.^-----^^^^^ii^f(,f,fri


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