Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — Roaring Pemaquid. [ARTICLE]

Roaring Pemaquid.

Pemaquid Point, near Damariscotta, Me., has been said to be, in a gale from any point of the compass between southeast and southwest, the roughest point on the Atlantic coast. It is literally out at sea, and the winds of the Atlantic, rolling in from 3,000 miles of ocean without let or hindrance, break with explosivo roar upon its bastions of stone, which are worn into endless forms by the attrition and abrasion of a-ies. It is very rarely that any point of the mainland possesses all the conditions of an uninterrupted breaking place for the waves of the ocean. Outlying rocks or islands, or the conformation of the adjacent coast usually break up or check the course of the waves long before reaching the mainland. Nothing lies between Pemaquid

Point and the broad Atlantic, and even in the calmest mood of the sea the roar of its surf upon its walls is remarkable. When the southerly gale is on the spray is flung hundreds of feet into the, air. The noise is deafening. Huge pieces of rook are broken from the projecting walls and thrown upon the Pemaquid lighthouse stands on the promontory, several hundred feet back from the edge, with the house of the keeper adjoining it. The light is at least 300 feet above the level of the sea. Yet in a southerly gale a few years ago a large stone was hurled by the waves through the thick gloss of the laiitern, and the spray came down the chimneys of the houses in such quantities as to extinguish the fires. History and legefid also lend their attractions to Pemaquid. No part of the country was earlier known to' voyagers. The ships of Pring, Weymouth, and Gilbert had plowed these waters long before the settlement of Jamestown, and Pemaquid was the. fiyal. of Plymouth and Boston as a metropolis in the infancy of New Englarid. The old fort at the harbor was for nearly a century on the disputed territory between Massachusetts and Acadia.