* * * * * In connection with the voyage of Waymouth, 1605, one topic of discussion relates to the particular river which he explored. This, indeed, is a subject in connection with which a divergence of opinion may be pardonable. Did he explore the St. George’s River, or the Kennebec? Belknap, however, in 1796, in a crude fashion and with poor data, held that the Penobscot was the river visited.[380] In 1857 a Maine writer took the ground that Waymouth explored the Kennebec.[381] Other writers followed with pleas for the St. George’s.[382] [Illustration: SKETCH-MAP OF THE MODERN COAST OF MAINE. 1. Portsmouth. 2. York [Gorgiana, 1641]. 3. Agamenticus. 4. Saco. 5. Richmond Island. 6. Casco. 7. Sabino [Popham’s Colony]. 8. Sagadahoc River. 9. Damariscotta River. 10. Sheepscott River. 11. Pemaquid. 12. Monhegan Island. 13. Fox Islands. 14. Isle au haut. 15. Castine [Pentagöet, Bagaduce]. 16. Mount Desert. 17. Kennebec River. 18. Penobscot River. 19. George’s River. 20. St. George’s Islands [?Pentecost harbor]. 21. Boothbay [? Pentecost]. 22. Camden Hills. 23. Damariscove Islands. A. Lygonia, 1630; subsequently part of Gorges and Mason’s grant, 1622, and Somersetshire, 1635. B. Plymouth grant. C. Muscongus, 1630. D. Waldo patent. See for the region about Pemaquid the map in the narrative part of this chapter.] Ballard wrote what was, in most respects, a convincing argument in support of the Kennebec River.[383] In opposition to the advocate of the Kennebec, it has been said that the high mountains seen by Waymouth were not the White Mountains,—for the reason that the White Mountains could not be seen,—but were the Camden hills, towards which he went from Monhegan; and consequently that he reached the St. George’s River, which lies in that direction. It has been said, also, that the White Mountains cannot be seen from that vicinity. This is simply an assumption. The White Mountains are distinctly visible in fair weather from the deck of a ship lying inside of Monhegan.[384] Yet the mountains in question have less to do with the subject than generally supposed, since a careful examination of the obscure text shows that it is not necessary to understand Rosier as saying that in going to the river they sailed directly towards the mountains. His language shows that they “came along to the other islands more adjoining the main, and in the road directly with the mountains.”[385] Here it is not necessary to suppose that it was the course sailed that was direct, but rather that it was the _road_ that was direct with the mountains,—the term _road_ signifying a roadstead, or anchorage place at a distance from the shore, like that of Monhegan. Beyond question Waymouth saw both the White and the Camden mountains; but they do not form such an essential element in the discussion as both sides have fancied. Strachey really settles the question where he says that