Rosiers Narrative Of Waymouths Voyage To The Coast Of Maine In 1605

Author : James Rosier
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ISBN 13 : 9781332192038
Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book Rosier's Narrative of Waymouth's Voyage to the Coast of Maine, in 1605 written by James Rosier and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rosier's Narrative of Waymouth's Voyage to the Coast of Maine, in 1605: Complete, With Remarks by George Prince, Showing the River Explored to Have Been the Georges River; Together With a Map of the Same and the Adjacent Islands In the summer of 1858, while reading Rosier's Narrative of Waymouth's voyage in 1605 to the coast of Maine, as published in the 8th vol. of the Mass. Hist. Col. kindly loaned me by the librarian of the Maine His. Society, the suspicions which I had before entertained were confirmed, viz., that the forty-mile river there referred to, instead of being as all writers and historians had heretofore supposed, either the Kennebec or Penobscot, was none other than the Georges, the mouth of which is about 50 miles from that of the Penobscot, and some 30 miles from the Kennebec. Accordingly in August, 1858, I published an article in a weekly paper printed at Thomaston, taking the above ground, and giving my reasons therefor. This article was inscribed to Cyrus Eaton, . Esq., Author of the "Annals of Warren," in which work he adopts the prevailing opinions of the time, that the river aforesaid was the Penobscot. I knew, however, that Mr. Eaton was a candid man as well as a scholar of great historical research, and would give the subject a fair investigation, without any prejudice in favor of a preconceived theory. I was accordingly gratified in receiving a letter from him the following January, stating that my new theory was favorably received by himself and other historians. In consequence of this favorable reception of an entirely new and different theory from any heretofore offered, together with urgent requests from members of the Maine Historical Society, I was induced to prepare a paper for that Society, embracing my views on the subject, which was read at their meeting in Augusta in January, 1859, the same that has been recently published in the sixth volume of their collections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.