. Here and there in New England and Canada . th century — as far back as the days of the Ar-mada. Champlain reported them as isles assez hautes; and Capt. JohnSmith named tliem •• Smiths Isles. Subsequentl)-, the islands wereoccupied by a motley company of flshermen, pirates, and seal-hunters,who lived here in great uproar and content, almsing the mainland con-stables with opprobrious languidg, and worse, and remaining defiantand intractable even before the brass-mounted black staft of the highsheriff of York. The Gorgeaua General Coiu-t was compelled to re-peal an enactment against allowing w
. Here and there in New England and Canada . th century — as far back as the days of the Ar-mada. Champlain reported them as isles assez hautes; and Capt. JohnSmith named tliem •• Smiths Isles. Subsequentl)-, the islands wereoccupied by a motley company of flshermen, pirates, and seal-hunters,who lived here in great uproar and content, almsing the mainland con-stables with opprobrious languidg, and worse, and remaining defiantand intractable even before the brass-mounted black staft of the highsheriff of York. The Gorgeaua General Coiu-t was compelled to re-peal an enactment against allowing women on the islands, saying: Asthe flshermen of the Isles of Shoals loiU entertain womanhood, theyhave liberty to sit down there, provided they shall not sell either wine,beare, or liquor. By the year 1G50 there were six hundred dwellershere, and flshermen from all over the world frequented the port, andpirates and letter-of-marque men from tlie Spanish Attain. When theRevolutionary War broke out. the pe(jple were removed to the main-. land, by order of the State authorities, and this blow was never recov-ered from. Appledore is a mile long, and two-tliirds of a mile wide, made up oftwo high and rocky ridges, between which, in a little valley, stands thefamous Appledore House, with its modern conveniences and by is the pretty cottage of Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the sister of theLeightons, and one of the most celebrated of New-England authors. Star Island, three-quarters of a mile long, and half a mile wide, wasthe site of the ancient village of Gosport, the capital of the little archi-pelago. About the year 1870 it was depopulated, and the great OceanicHotel arose on its lonely shore. This was burnt, two or three yearslater, and replaced by another and smaller public house. Star andWhite Islands belong to New Hampsliire; the other islands, to JIaine. On the highest point of Star Island is the Gosport church, built ofthe timbers of a wrecked Spanish galleon, in C
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