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Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

by Samuel Adams Drake

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Chapter VII Monhegan Island

Scenes on a Penobscot Steamer.—The Islanders.—Weymouth’s Anchorage.—Monhegan described.—Combat between the Enterprise and Boxer.—Lieutenant Burrows

Chapter VIII From Wells to Old York

Wells.—John Wheelwright.—George Burroughs.—On the Beach.—Shiftings of the Sands.—What they produce.—Ingenuity of the Crow.—The Beach as a High-road.—Popular Superstitions.—Ogunquit.—Bald Head Cliff.—Wreck of the Isidore.—Kennebunkport.—Cape Neddock.—The Nubble.—Captains Gosnold and Pring.—Moon-light on the Beach

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