ISBN: 9781458820617

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... THE VALUE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF CABOT''S DISCOVERY TO THE WORLD. BY PROF. JOHN S. 8EWALL. Cabot builded better than he knew. His dream was India, the land of spices and gems, the Eldorado of the East, opulent with all precious things. He was ready to brave the mystery of unknown seas to reach that golden strand. What he found instead was an uncouth continent, stretching its rugged length from pole to pole, its lonely shores hoarsely echoing the surges of the great Atlantic, its hills and valleys shrouded in somber woods, its denizens wild beasts and savage men. No populous cities, no marts of trade, no bustling harbors alive with swarming fleets, no costly argosies passing and repassing along the paths of the seas. It was a bitter disappointment. To search for the rich empires of the Orient, and stumble upon an infinite wilderness! Well might it check the ardor of the most romantic adventurer. And had not the young mariner been well endowed with the enterprise of the age and the bold spirit of his profession, he would doubtless have given over the quest and concerned himself no longer with such ungracious results. But whatever his personal emotions, the discovery was made. The secret of the new world was out. Europe learned of the great land lying fallow under western skies, waiting for the beginnings of a career. What that career might be must depend on what races should gain possession, and whether their old-world civilization could be adjusted to the crude conditions of the new. Imagine for a moment that Cabot had somehow found a western route to the Orient; that the oceans had opened their gates wide to his progress, and no barrier had blocked his way to the treasures of the East. Who can doubt the sordid effect? What a crusade of avarice would have star... Maine Historical Society, Books, History, Collections of the Maine Historical Society. [1st Ser Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Maine; History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / New England; Travel / United States / General; Travel / United States / Northeast / New England;<

ISBN: 9781458820617

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If the writer has succeeded, however, in rescuing his name from oblivion and the prejudiced statements that have been handed down from one generation to another, to pass unchallenged into history; if he has succeeded in shedding a new light upon his character, portraying him in such different colors; if the overwhelming proof which he has offered against such slight evidence to the contraryâ?"of which there can be but little doubtâ?"has acquitted Colonel Thomas Goldthwait of the charges which have stood against him for more than a century of time, he will ever feel grateful to that sense of duty which urged him on to this laborious work, especially in that of passing ten days among the files of the Mass. Archives, and the keenest pleasure in having brought his labors to such a satisfactory conclusion. BEARING OF CAPTAIN JOHN MASON'S TITLES UPON MAINE HISTORY. BY THE LATE WILLIAM M. SARGENT. textit{Rend before the Maine Historical Society, February 9, 1888. The following papers, references and citations are based upon the discovery of Sir Ferdinando Gorges' deedJ to Capt. John Mason of the Newichewannock tract, and the deed by the Mason heirs of the abovetract and Masonial to Samuel Allen; the resulting suit of Allen vs. Spencer; the mortgaging, foreclosing and subsequent adandonment of the title to these extensive tracts in Maine. 1 The above Gorges' deed, being No. 12 in the recently discovered manuscript volume of Masonlan Titles, is printed at pages 39-42 in the introduction to Book n, Tork Deeds. The announcement made last April through the columns of the Portland Daily Advertiser2 of the discovery of an interesting and historically valuable manuscript collection of papers bearing upon the earliest history of the Province of Maine and New Books History~~General Collections-Of-The-Maine-Historical-Society~~Maine-Historical-Society General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Maine; History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / New England; Travel / United States / General; Travel / United States / Northeast / New England;<

ISBN: 9781458820617

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If … Mehr…

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If the writer has succeeded, however, in rescuing his name from oblivion and the prejudiced statements that have been handed down from one generation to another, to pass unchallenged into history; if he has succeeded in shedding a new light upon his character, portraying him in such different colors; Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If the writer has succeeded, however, in rescuing his name from oblivion and the prejudiced statements that have been handed down from one generation to another, to pass unchallenged into history; if he has succeeded in shedding a new light upon his character, portraying him in such different colors; if the overwhelming proof which he has offered against such slight evidence to the contraryâ?"of which there can be but little doubtâ?"has acquitted Colonel Thomas Goldthwait of the charges which have stood against him for more than a century of time, he will ever feel grateful to that sense of duty which urged him on to this laborious work, especially in that of passing ten days among the files of the Mass. Archives, and the keenest pleasure in having brought his labors to such a satisfactory conclusion. BEARING OF CAPTAIN JOHN MASON'S TITLES UPON MAINE HISTORY. BY THE LATE WILLIAM M. SARGENT. textit{Rend before the Maine Historical Society, February 9, 1888. The following papers, references and citations are based upon the discovery of Sir Ferdinando Gorges' deedJ to Capt. John Mason of the Newichewannock tract, and the deed by the Mason heirs of the abovetract and Masonial to Samuel Allen; the resulting suit of Allen vs. Spencer; the mortgaging, foreclosing and subsequent adandonment of the title to these extensive tracts in Maine. 1 The above Gorges' deed, being No. 12 in the recently discovered manuscript volume of Masonlan Titles, is printed at pages 39-42 in the introduction to Book n, Tork Deeds. The announcement made last April through the columns of the Portland Daily Advertiser2 of the discovery of an interesting and historically valuable manuscript collection of papers bearing upon the earliest history of the Province of Maine and New Books, History~~General, Collections-Of-The-Maine-Historical-Society~~Maine-Historical-Society, 999999999, Collections Of The Maine Historical Society. [1st Ser, Maine Historical Society, 1458820610, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458820617

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... THE VALUE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF CABOT''S DISCOVERY TO THE WORLD. BY PROF. JOHN S. 8EWALL. Cabot builded better than he knew. His dream was India, the land of spices and gems, the Eldorado of the East, opulent with all precious things. He was ready to brave the mystery of unknown seas to reach that golden strand. What he found instead was an uncouth continent, stretching its rugged length from pole to pole, its lonely shores hoarsely echoing the surges of the great Atlantic, its hills and valleys shrouded in somber woods, its denizens wild beasts and savage men. No populous cities, no marts of trade, no bustling harbors alive with swarming fleets, no costly argosies passing and repassing along the paths of the seas. It was a bitter disappointment. To search for the rich empires of the Orient, and stumble upon an infinite wilderness! Well might it check the ardor of the most romantic adventurer. And had not the young mariner been well endowed with the enterprise of the age and the bold spirit of his profession, he would doubtless have given over the quest and concerned himself no longer with such ungracious results. But whatever his personal emotions, the discovery was made. The secret of the new world was out. Europe learned of the great land lying fallow under western skies, waiting for the beginnings of a career. What that career might be must depend on what races should gain possession, and whether their old-world civilization could be adjusted to the crude conditions of the new. Imagine for a moment that Cabot had somehow found a western route to the Orient; that the oceans had opened their gates wide to his progress, and no barrier had blocked his way to the treasures of the East. Who can doubt the sordid effect? What a crusade of avarice would have star... Maine Historical Society, Books, History, Collections of the Maine Historical Society. [1st Ser Books>History, General Books LLC<