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Roaring Pemaquid

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Day
2
Month
June
Year
1886
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Public Domain
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1 cmaquid roint, near uamariscotta. Me., has been said to be, in a gale from any point of the compass between 3outheast and southwest, the roughest point on the Atlantic coast. It is literallj out to aea, and the waves of the Atlantic, rolling in from three thousand miles of ocean without let er hindrance, broak with explosivo roar upon its bastfcns of stone which are worn nto endless forms by the attrition an d abrasión of ages. It is very rarely that any point of the mainland possesses all tho conditions of an uninterrupted breaking place for the waves of the ocean. Outlying rocks or islands or the conformation of the adjacent coast usually break up or check tho course of (he waves long before reaching tho muinland. Notning lies between Pemaquid Point and the broad Atlantic, and even in the calmest moods of sea the roar of the surf upon its walls is remarkable. When the southerly gale is on, the spray is flung hundreds of feet into the air. The noiso is deafening. Huge pieces of rock are broken from the projecting wall and thrown up on the bank. Pemaquid light-house stands on the promontory, several hundred feet back from the edge, with the house of the keeper adjoining it. The liglit is at least three huudred feet above the sea level. Yet in a southerly gale a few years ago a large stone was nurled by tho waves through the thiok glass of tho lantern, and the spray carne down the chimneys of the house in such quantities as to eitinguish th fires. History and legend also lend their attractions to Pemaquid. No part of tho country was earlier known to voyagers. The ships of Pring, Weymouth and üilbcrt had plowed these waters long beforo tho settlemcnt of Jamestown, and Pemaquid was the rival of Plymouth and Boston as a metropolis in the infancy of New England. The old lort at the harbor was for near a century on the disputed territory betweon Massachusetts and Acadia. Governor Chaniberlain claims for Pomaquid an older dato than Plymouth. "Few know," he says, "that years before the I'ilpims set foot on Plymouth sands, thcíti were established English settlcments at various points on the ahorca Main- that Pemaqnid was a scat of trad, and at onc time the metropolis of all the región cast of New York "- BocUand (Me.) Couner-OazeUe. ,Or -Tho most powerful king on esrth is wur-king; the lasiest, shir-king; a very doubtfül king, smo-king; the most commonplace king, jo-kiug_; the leanest one, thin-king; the thirstiost one, diin-king; tho slyest une, wiu-kiug; and tlio uiost gunulous une, ttil-kiug.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News