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The Book of Gold and Other Poems.

       Art Education Applied to Industry.

       Art Decoration Applied to Furniture.

       The Earth

       The Ocean,

       The Atmosphere.

       Goldsmith's Poetical Works.

       California

       Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands.

       A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge,

       The Rise of the Dutch Republic.

       History of the United Netherlands

       Life and Death of John of Barneveld,

       Pottery and Porcelain of all Times and Nations.

       The Poets of the Nineteenth Century.

       Songs of Our Youth.

       Peru

       Contemporary Art in Europe.

       The Poets and Poetry of Scotland

       Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution;

       The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812;

       The Geographical Distribution of Animals.

       The First Century of the Republic.

NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS.

       Table of Contents

      Norumbega River and City.—Early Discoverers, and Maps of New England.—Mode of taking Possession of new Countries.—Cruel Usage of Intruders by the English.—Penobscot Bay.—Character of first Emigrants to New England.—Is Friday unlucky?

       CHAPTER II.

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND.

       Table of Contents

      About Islands.—Champlain's Discovery.—Mount Desert Range.—Somesville, and the Neighborhood.—Colony of Madame De Guercheville.—Descent of Sir S. Argall.—Treasure-trove.—Shell-heaps.—South-west Harbor.—The natural Sea-wall.—Islands off Somes's Sound

       CHAPTER III.

CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT.

       Table of Contents

      Excursion to Bar Harbor.—Green Mountain.—Eagle Lake.—Island Nomenclature.—Porcupine Islands.—Short Jaunts by the Shore.—Schooner Head.—Spouting Caves.—Sea Aquaria.—Audubon and Agassiz.—David Wasgatt Clark.—F. E. Church and the Artists.—Great Head.—Baye Françoise.—Mount Desert Rock.—Value of natural Sea-marks.—Newport Mountain, and the Way to Otter Creek.—The Islesmen.—North-east Harbor.—The Ovens.—The Gregoires.—Henrietta d'Orleans.—Yankee Curiosity

       CHAPTER IV.

CASTINE.

       Table of Contents

      Pentagoët.—A Fog in Penobscot Bay.—Rockland.—The Muscongus Grant.—Colonial Society.—Generals Knox and Lincoln.—Camden Hills.—Belfast and the River Penobscot.—Brigadier's Island.—Disappearance of the Salmon.—Approach to Castine.—Fort George.—Penobscot Expedition.—Sir John Moore.—Capture of General Wadsworth.—His remarkable Escape.—Rochambeau's Proposal.—La Peyrouse

       CHAPTER V.

CASTINE—continued.

       Table of Contents

      Old Fort Pentagoët.—Stephen Grindle's Windfall.—Cob-money.—The Pilgrims at Penobscot.—Isaac de Razilly.—D'Aulnay Charnisay.—La Tour.—Descent of Sedgwick and Leverett.—Capture of Pentagoët, and Imprisonment of Chambly.—Colbert.—Baron Castin.—The younger Castin kidnaped.—Capuchins and Jesuits.—Intrigues of De Maintenon and Père Lachaise.—Burial-ground of Castine.—About the Lobster.—Where is Down East?

       CHAPTER VI.

PEMAQUID POINT.

       Table of Contents

      New Harbor.—Wayside Manners.—British Repulse at New Harbor.—Porgee Factory.—Process of converting the Fish into Oil.—Habits of the Mackerel.—Weymouth's Visit to Pemaquid.—Champlain again.—Popham Colony.—Cotton Mather on new Settlements.—English vs. French Endurance.—L'Ordre de Bon Temps.—Samoset.—Fort Frederick.—Résumé of the English Settlement and Forts.—John Nelson.—Capture of Fort William Henry.—D'Iberville, the knowing One.—Colonel Dunbar at Pemaquid.—Shell-heaps of Damariscotta.—Disappearance of the native Oyster in New England

       CHAPTER VII.

MONHEGAN ISLAND.

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