The Pine-tree coast . RliOW-lIKAD (Actual Sizf.) ARROW-IIKAl). (Actual Size.) PEMAQUII) THE FORTRESS. 227 We thus have a definite starting-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
The Pine-tree coast . RliOW-lIKAD (Actual Sizf.) ARROW-IIKAl). (Actual Size.) PEMAQUII) THE FORTRESS. 227 We thus have a definite starting-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 a
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