. Here and there in New England and Canada . VIEWS IN AND ABOUND POKTLANU. 120 has been likened to a lion coucliant. witli Munjoys Hill for its head,and Congress Street for its spine, and the steep cross-streets for the Court of Versailles decreed that Xew England should bedevastated by its gallant captains and their Indian allies, one of thefirst blows fell on this settlement, when an army of Frenchmen andsavages descended from the northern wilderness and destroyed tlietown (in 1690), and finally compelled the surrender of Fort Loyall(which stood near the present Grand-Trunk statio
. Here and there in New England and Canada . VIEWS IN AND ABOUND POKTLANU. 120 has been likened to a lion coucliant. witli Munjoys Hill for its head,and Congress Street for its spine, and the steep cross-streets for the Court of Versailles decreed that Xew England should bedevastated by its gallant captains and their Indian allies, one of thefirst blows fell on this settlement, when an army of Frenchmen andsavages descended from the northern wilderness and destroyed tlietown (in 1690), and finally compelled the surrender of Fort Loyall(which stood near the present Grand-Trunk station). Time after time,in those bloody days, the place was desolated and ruined, and becameknown as deserted Casco;and after those dangers finally passedaway forever, a new foeman appeared, in 1775, when, with five Britishwar-ships, Capt. Mowatt bombarded the town and reduced it to ashes,parties of blue-jackets lauding from tlic ships to set the torch to the. buildings wliich had escaped damage from their batteries. Wliat inter-esting chapters of local history are those describing the Portland fleetof privateers of 1812-15, the rise of the rich merchants, the era ofrailroad construction, the citys contribution of five thousand soldiersto the National armv in the Secession War, the quickly avenged captureof the United-States revenue-cutter Caleb Cushing in the harbor by adetachment of bold Confederate sailors, the Great Fire of 18(16, whichdestroyed fifteen hundred buildings and six and a half million dol-lars worth of propertj% and the subsequent re-construction of the cityon a more metropolitan scale I The population of Portland is not farfrom thirt3-six thousand. This fairest daughter of Massachusetts has won distinction byher famous sons, — Longfellow and Willis and Fanny Fein and JoluiNe^l and Sidnej- Luska in literature. Paul Akers and Harry Brown in 121 art, the Prebles and Admiral Alden in naval histoi-y, Erastus and Jamof?Brooks
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