Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Survey of Waldo County, Maine: Historical, Physical, Agricultural
A high country full of great woods, is the quaint description Martin Pring gave to the islands and shores Of Penobscot Bay in 1603. He found good anchorage among these islands, and the best of fishing. Upon one of the islands they saw some foxes, and they gave the name fox islands to the whole group; which name they bear to this day. The cod and haddock they found abundant and esteemed them better than those taken at Newfoundland. They were particularly pleased with the very goodly groves seen, and the sundry'beasts they saw. Pring carried back with him, to Bristol, England, the port from whence he sailed, an Indian canoe, as a specimen Of the aborigines' skill and ingenuity. Not many Indians were seen; they were probably - as this was in the summer seasons - in the interior hunting.
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