Excerpt from Portland: Illustrated That Portland has never had justice, nor indeed, anything like justice done her, begins to be felt and acknowledged by pleasure-seekers and the great business-world. Her capabilities, advantages and resources are found to be absolutely surprising, when carefully investigated; so that, in giving an account of them, one can hardly avoid the appearance of great exaggeration. Whole generations have passed away since our ship-building, our fisheries, our lumbering operations, our adventurous temper, and the beauty of our women; our commercial enterprize, and our readiness to take the field with "a fire in our bones," whenever called upon by our country, or threatened by interlopers, red men or white, have been talked about over sea, and everywhere among ourselves, more as if we were not only "a peculiar people zealous of good works," but numerous, warlike and powerful, with slumbering energies of a somewhat dangerous character, than as a small, sober, christianized community, self-possessed, industrious and thrifty, and at home everywhere, on land or sea. Beginning with a liberal contribution of men to our first Indian war, of 167.5, and furnishing four companies in 174.5, finishing off with five thousand altogether in the Great Rebellion, to say nothing of intermediate periods, nothing of the second Indian war in 1688, when Portland, then Falmouth, was utterly destroyed for the second time, and the whole population, amounting to six or seven hundred, were obliged to flee for their lives, followed by the French and their savage alies, until Church, who had been so greatly distinguished in the war with Philip of Mount-Hope, came to their relief with six or eight companies; nothing of Louisburg and the French war; nothing of the Revolutionary war in 1770, when the town was laid in ashes by Mo watt; nothing of the Mexican war, and the war with Great Britian from 1812 to 1815, Portland never shrank, nor faltered, in the discharge of her duty to herself and her country. But notwithstanding these wars, and the terrible embargo which desolated our wharves, and the non-importation acts, and non-intercourse laws, Portland continued her flourishing career. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.