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ran foul of a pink stern fi shing vessel deeply loaded – one of the fi shermen jumped on board the JUDITH at the moment, and the vessels cleared each other, and Capt. Parker hove to – pretty soon the fi shermen hailed for the JUDITH’s boat, as they considered themselves in danger of sinking; the boat was immediately sent with the man that be- longed to the pink and one of the JUDITH’s men by the name of Drinkwater, they rowed alongside, made fast and stepped on board and all were apparently engaged in saving some of their aff ects, when painful to relate the schooner suddenly went down carrying boat and all the men, seven in number with her. We have not heard the name of the fi sh- ing vessel, nor do we know whether Capt. Perkins learned the name in the confusion or where she belonged. The JUDITH has arrived at Northport with loss of bowsprit &c.


15 August Sea Serpent Wounded. – Capt. David


Thurlo, Jr. of schooner LYDIA of Deer Isle, when about 6 leagues ESE from Mount Desert Rock, left his vessel on the 24th


inst.


in his boat to try for mackerel, when a mon- ster of the serpent kind appeared and came alongside his boat; he having a harpoon in his boat through it at him, which took eff ect and he ran off with the boat in tow, after running a short distance he stopped and rose his head out of water 6 or 7 feet he started again the warp parted and the serpent made off with the harpoon in his body. Capt. Thurlo then resumed his fi shing, when all at once the serpent came up again very near them. Capt. Thurlo then rowed for his vessel, which was about 3 miles distant; the serpent then rose his head out of water as before and continued following them at about the same distance from the boat till they reached the vessel. Capt. Thurlo thinks there were two of them, and that the one he harpooned was not the one that followed him to the vessel. They were 70 or 80 feet long, dark colored and had large scales. Captain Thurlo had the most perfect view of his head when he rose out of water, and states that it resembled


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Hancock Gazette - 1827 exactly that of a shark.


[Boston Courier Tour to Moose-head Lake June 18. – Leaving Augusta, I traveled


through Sidney, Waterville, Fairfi eld, to Skowhegan Falls, having Bloomfi eld on one side of the river and Milburn on the other side, connected by a bridge across the river. This place is eligibly situated and destined to be a village of considerable trade and impor- tance, commanding as it does the avenues to and from the country and having a very valuable water privilege for mills and man- ufactories. Keeping the road through Corn- ville, Athens, Harmony to Parkman through Abbot to Monson the road is bad, country new, but rapidly settling. From Monson through Fuller Town and Haskell’s planta- tion, to the Lake, a distance of 12 miles, the road is extremely bad, and has been mostly made at the expense of a few lumbering people. From the foot of the Lake to Day’s Academy Lands, a distance of 22 miles, I passed over the Lake in a common canoe in about three hours, with a strong south wind. Day’s Academy land is a half township of land granted by the State to Day’s Academy in Wrentham, and is situated on a peninsula projecting from the easterly side of the Lake. Joining this location, and westerly of its Mount Kineo, or Flint Mountain, a high Bluff , rising on the south and east side abruptly from the Lake 800 or 1000 feet. Immediately at the foot of this mountain fi ve or six hundred feet of line has been thrown without getting bottom, Moosehead Lake is the largest Bay of freshwater in New England. Mount Kineo or Day’s Academy land is distant from Augusta about 120 miles north by east. The Lake is about 40 miles in length from south to north and about 25 miles wide. Moosehead Lake, in its fi gure, it is very irregular, being indented with many capes and bays and having many Islands, some of which are suffi ciently large for townships. The Lake is well calculated for sloop or steamboat navigation. Owing to the ranges of mountains on the east and west side of the Lake the approaches to those


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parts are diffi- cult and much of the country inaccessible to direct roads. This will confi ne the business of the Lake and the set-


tlement of the country about the Lake to trade by water in the summer and ice in the winter.


There is, no doubt, much good land in


the vicinity of the Lake, and considerable quantities of Pine timber on its borders and the streams which empty into the Lake. There are [??] extensive tracts of entire pine timber, but the country has generally a mixed growth, with small glades of pine timber. Moose River is a considerable stream, emp- tying itself into the Lake from the west, and is navigable for driving logs 50 to 60 miles. From Augusta to the foot of the Lake,


so-called, is about 90 miles, from Bangor 65 miles. The country is well calculated for making roads. From the Head or northern extremity of the Lake to Québec is about 120 miles, over a level country. Whenever the road shall be open to and from the Lake, and there shall be a convenient sloop or steamboat navigation on the Lake, much of the trade from Kennebec and Penobscot to lower Canada will take this course. Connecting the waters of the Kennebec,


Penobscot, St. John; and St. Lawrence, by the way of Moosehead Lake, will open the most extensive interior navigation in New England.


Ken. Jour. From the Eastport Sentinel Capt. Bradford, of brig COLUMBIA,


arrived here last, evening and 37 days from Liverpool, favored us with a London paper of the 26th


June. An article dated Vienna, June 13, says


that news has just been received from Trieste of Lord Cochrane having obtained a great advantage over a Turkish fl eet. By an article from a Paris paper of the


23rd


June it appears that decisive orders have been given by Russia, France, and England to unite their respective fl eets, to “separate the combatants,” (Greeks and Turks.) The same paper says “that they have to


lament the deplorable events that have taken place before Athens” but gives no particulars respecting them. Letters, however, from Syria say, “that the defeat before Athens had fi lled all Greece with consternation, and that the Greeks complained of Lord Cochrane.” A number of French ships of war have


been ordered to the Mediterranean and a considerable Russian fl eet is also ordered to that sea.


DIED At the Magdalin Islands, drowned from


on board schooner RANGER, of Lubec, Capt. Francis Antone, aged 48, and Mr. Thomas M’Daniel, 30.


MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived


August 8th – schooner FAME, Wood-


ward, Hingham; ROB ROY, Donnell, New- buryport.


August 9th


Eastport. Castine. Boston.


Robinson, Boston. August 10th


August 11th August 13th


– RACHEL & NANCY, – sloop JULIA ANN, Lunt, – brig VENUS, Tilden, – sloop BRUTUS, Clark,


22 August LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF A SAIL- OR’S LIFE


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