The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-18

the ocean, shutting out the main and leav-
ing on the eye range Of ocean mountains
While in the west and south low, gentle
tracing of land bluff and shore, sweeps the
horizon in slightly concave outline termi-
mating with Damariscove, in which the entire
island groupis merged and lost as a main
land showing from the sea. I-
Beyond it, however, the clouds so curtained
the scene, that the ''twinkling mountains of
Acocisco" of Smiths observation, 1914. and
the "Chrysta Hills of Leavitt's observation
In 1924, and the white Mountains, of the
present generation, put in no appearance.
Inc panorama was carefully sketched by the
Camera, foruse in Illustration of history. --
GEOLOGY. t-fs. ''-
The geological features of this island are
as remarkable as its landscapes and surround
ings.
Monhegan appears to be truncated noun
tain, at an angle of nearly forty-five degrees,
and the abraded activities show like the iron
bluffs OF Wales; and at the base of that on
which the lighthouse stands nature has
stored in marshy deposit Springs of fresh
water which rush in rivulet through the har-
Dor and into the sea.
The formation is coarse granite with ba-
saltic upheavals impregnated with iron. The
superficies are -marvelously scored and chan
neled with grooved depressions chiseled in
right lines, cut at acute angles and traversed
like the radiations oD the grinding surface of
milestone.
The same peculiarities mark the vertical
surfaces on the rocks of -"Manana," which
challenge the curiosity of the geologist and
antiquary as on the horizontal surfaces of
Monhegan. The grooves are perfectly cut an
inch deep, by an inch and a quarter wide
and every angle perfectly joined at the inter-
sections.
On the shore of the main opposite, fis-'
sure or crack some fifty feet wide, in line
with the harbor, appears to the eye crossing
Pemaquid point, some two miles north of the
lighthouse; and the same or like fssure of
diminished width cleaves the western shore
OF "Cape Newagon" just north of ellen
bricks Head'' in chasm of six feet width,
with fissure corresponding of feet width
on the Five Island shore of the river, at least
twenty-five miles distant, and they each
trend east and west till enlarged at its east
ern terminus into the ravine separating
"Manana" from ''Monhegan," and consti-
tuting the harbor of refuge between them in
which the McCulloch lay
This feature and the theory suggested by it
as to the formation of the harbor of Monhe-
gan are well worthy of the investigation of
geologists.,
POPULATION.
Monhegan has twenty or more houses. The
hamlet is built on the north Tor Monhegan)
side of the harbor and is made up of fisher
mems homes with little or no regard to archi-
tectural attractions. All seemed comforta-
BILE; and the men we met were intelligent,
and the women adopts in the culinary art of
chowder-making; and amidst some traces of
age and squalor many respectable and paint
ed cottages adorned the settlement We OBJ
served building with double doors which
may have served the purpose of school or
church. one or both, but sadly in need of
paint, with well graded and neatly enclosed
church yard, well stored with monumental
dead; and the sea girt isle and its harbor and
its homes were far less offensive by reason of
the execrable smells of porgie-chum and fish
flakes than the more aspiring localities on
the neighboring main emulous of the sea-
side trade, travel and resort.
AT 80 P. NJ. the hoarse call of the steam
er brought the ships company to embark.
Some came from the top of Manana where
they had been to examine the alleged ''rock
writings" of the North-men-opinion varied
all concurred in the remarkable character
OF the tracings, and while Prest. Bourne was
confirmed in the belief that they were the
work of hnman hands, the critical Tuttle was
staggered in his opinions as to the exact ma
ture and cause of their existence Returning,
an hour and Ia half's run landed the COM
pany at the Boothbay House, in the harbor
for the night.
"PEMAQUID."
At 9 A. NJ. ofthe 18th the whistle sounded
''all aboard" and Lieut.. Gardiner quietly
shaped the course of the ship so as to exam
inc Burnt Island" rock, the site of the light
house in the midst of the harbor, supposed to
be the place meant in the voyage of the Arch
angel, 1905, where it is said, "our captain up-
on the rock in the midst of the harbor OBJ
served the height of latitude and variation
exactly upon his Instruments" Purchase
shows the latitude to have been 43 degrees
~, with eleven degrees variation. The ship
was then veered to the west shore of 'Souir-
rel Island" so as to observe upon its western
shore pleasant sandy coue for small barks
to ride in and hard by the shore an over
grown pond of shrub herbs with a runlet of
water, also spoken of in the narrative of that
voyage. This accomplished, the ship bore
up for Pemaquid.
All were in refreshing good spirits and an
imated discussion, relative to the course of
the Archangel for the main, stimulated bv
the inspiration of the grand sea and land sur
roundings. On turning the light, browns
head'', the scene of the Pierce plantation.
soon showed in the northeast at the root of
the point in bold relief, toward which. the
ship ran close in shore till the cloven tongued
inlet OF ''New Harbor', the home of ''John
Brown and Somerset in 1625,-the port
on the main opposite Monhegan where
Smith in 1914 found the Popham ships had
for SO many years concentrated trade in fur,
and fish, as to control 1.-THE eastern pre-
cinct and suburb of the Jamestown of the
Virginia of the north of the reign of King
Charles of England-fully opened to inspec-
ton from on shipboard.
1t is ingularly romantic spo t, shaded by
the beech and oak of overlooking high lands,
and most accessible to the best fishing
grounds of Monhegan and famous for the tat
and mighty cod which here reward the fish
er's toll.
The ship was put about for "John's bay"
and before noon, anchored in the outer har-
Dor OF Pemaquid. The company landed on
the site of Ft. Frederick, and the artists on
the barbican opposite for camera sketchings.
An excellent view of the outer barbor with
the steamer and the western landfall of Johns
pay, beginning with Johns Island and ending
IN Damarlscovc was taken; and also view of
the ancient site of the Fort and present sur
soundings, of the barbican and harbor pas
sage and of the peninsular where ancient
Jamestown stood and its paved streets now
Law buried The nOrOie works on sFish