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YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
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MAINE. |
THE Norsemen are said to
have visited Maine in 996 and
1008, and many believe that they
did. Cortereal, Verrazona, Gomez
and others sailed down the Gulf
of Maine before 1530; and in 1605
Weymouth set up crosses at
Mohegan and Pentecost Harbor to
claim the land for England. In
1614 Capt. John Smith ranged the
coast in an open boat from the
Penobscot to Cape Cod. |
The
partisan warfare of D'Aulnay and
La Tour; the settlement of the
Baron de St. Castin on Penobscot
Bay; the forays of the Indian
chieftains, Mogg, Megone and
Madocawando; and the Jesuit
missions and crusades, have
touched this iron-bound coast
with the halo of romance, and
furnished themes for the poems of
Longfellow and Whittier. |
During
the long struggles with the
French and Indians, Maine
suffered dreadfully. Only five
settlements remained at the close
of King Philip's War, and in the
first French War every town east
of Wells went down. |
In
1775 Benedict Arnold led the
unfortunate expedition through
the wilderness to Quebec. Maine
separated from Massachusetts, of
which it had been a part, and
entered the Union in 1820. The
Aroostook War, in 1837-39, arose
from boundary disputes between
Maine and New Brunswick, and the
borders were garrisoned by
regulars and local militia under
General Scott. |
The
famous "Maine Law"
policy, begun in 1846 and 1851,
imposes severe penalties on the
manufacture, selling or drinking
of intoxicating liquors. It has
not suppressed the evils, but has
abated them. |
ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Moose
Hunt; Arnold's Expedition through
the Wilderness in 1775;
The Early Explorers off the Coast
of Maine. |