Produced by Annie R. McGuire. This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print archive. [Illustration: Book Cover] [Illustration: PIGEON COVE, CAPE ANN.] NOOKS AND CORNERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. By SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE, AUTHOR OF "OLD LANDMARKS OF BOSTON," "HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX," &c. _WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS._ [Illustration] NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Inscribed by Permission, AND WITH SENTIMENTS OF HIGH RESPECT, TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. [Illustration: Map] CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS. Norumbega River and City.--Early Discoverers, and Maps of New England.--Mode of taking Possession of new Countries.--Cruel Usage of Intruders by the English.--Penobscot Bay.--Character of first Emigrants to New England.--Is Friday unlucky? 17 CHAPTER II. MOUNT DESERT ISLAND. About Islands.--Champlain's Discovery.--Mount Desert Range.--Somesville, and the Neighborhood.--Colony of Madame De Guercheville.--Descent of Sir S. Argall.--Treasure-trove.--Shell-heaps.--South-west Harbor.--The natural Sea-wall.--Islands off Somes's Sound 27 CHAPTER III CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT. Excursion to Bar Harbor.--Green Mountain.--Eagle Lake.--Island Nomenclature.--Porcupine Islands.--Short Jaunts by the Shore.--Schooner Head.--Spouting Caves.--Sea Aquaria.--Audubon and Agassiz.--David Wasgatt Clark.--F. E. Church and the Artists.--Great Head.--Baye Françoise.--Mount Desert Rock.--Value of natural Sea-marks.--Newport Mountain, and the Way to Otter Creek.--The Islesmen.--North-east Harbor.--The Ovens.--The Gregoires.--Henrietta d'Orleans.--Yankee Curiosity 40 CHAPTER IV. CASTINE. Pentagoët.--A Fog in Penobscot Bay.--Rockland.--The Muscongus Grant.--Colonial Society.--Generals Knox and Lincoln.--Camden Hills.--Belfast and the River Penobscot.--Brigadier's Island.--Disappearance of the Salmon.--Approach to Castine.--Fort George.--Penobscot Expedition.--Sir John Moore.--Capture of General Wadsworth.--His remarkable Escape.--Rochambeau's Proposal.--La Peyrouse 58 CHAPTER V. CASTINE--_continued._ Old Fort Pentagoët.--Stephen Grindle's Windfall.--Cob-money.--The Pilgrims at Penobscot.--Isaac de Razilly.--D'Aulnay Charnisay.--La Tour.--Descent of Sedgwick and Leverett.--Capture of Pentagoët, and Imprisonment of Chambly.--Colbert.--Baron Castin.--The younger Castin kidnaped.--Capuchins and Jesuits.--Intrigues of De Maintenon and Père Lachaise.--Burial-ground of Castine.--About the Lobster.--Where is Down East? 73 CHAPTER VI.