9. All around was so calm and still, that it were an insult to nature to make so lovely a solitude the arena of contention, and to offer human sacrifices on the purpled altar of violence. The sounds of merriment, the rejoicing of mirth, the pleasant song or the sprightly dance were more in harmony with the quiet beauty of the spot, than the rude confusion of warfare and the desolation of slaughter.

10. It was well that the floods had come and washed the soil from the red stains, and the storms had spread out the white sands over the spot where they had fought. Almost an hundred years have gone by, and as yet, no monument has been raised to preserve to posterity the memory of the locality of the combat.

11. The gratitude of a century has done nothing to perpetuate the names of those who have added to the inheritance of our honours. The dead were buried long after they fell, after the eagle and the wolf had been gorged with the relics of mortality, at the foot of an aged pine.

12. The fire has since scathed its branches and blasted its verdure, and the trunk has decayed, and each traveller carries away a fragment from its stump as a memento of his visit, so that ere long no mark will remain to distinguish the graves of the fallen, and to warn us that we do not profane with our footsteps the earth which covers their lowly beds.

13. Lovell had been long distinguished among the partisan warriors of the times. His former successes had been great. On one occasion, he surprised and killed a party of ten savages, whose scalps, stretched on hoops and elevated on poles, were borne back in triumph. His reputation called to the ranks of so distinguished a commander, a band of brave men, eager to avenge the outrages committed on the infant settlements.

14. The fervour of patriotism was animated by the bounty of one hundred pounds each, offered by the government for those bloody trophies not often taken from a living enemy. In the month of May, in the year 1725, with forty-six men, he commenced the expedition which terminated his military career.

15. Two of these soldiers, becoming lame, returned, another falling sick, was left with the surgeon, and a guard and eight men in a stoccade fort, erected partly as a place of security for the sick, and partly with a wise providence

against misfortune, as a retreat. With the remaining thirty-four, he continued his march northward until the morning of the eighth day of the month.

16. It was while engaged in the devotional exercises of their morning worship, that the report of a musket echoed through the forest, and they discovered an Indian in pursuit of his game, standing alone upon a narrow point of land extending into the Pequawket lake, on the side opposite to their encampment.

17. Thus apprised of the neighbourhood of their foe, they laid aside their packs and prepared for the encounter. They advanced, encompassing the lake in their course, and arrived at the head of the peninsula. The savage had awaited them, either ignorant of their approach, as from the most authentic accounts is most probable, or with the spirit of a Curtius, devoting himself, as some have supposed, to inevitable destruction, that he might allure the English to a position where defeat would be certain.

18. He received their fire, but, before he fell, returned it with so deadly an effect, that the captain and another soldier were mortally wounded. The party having secured their victim, returned towards the spot where they had left their packs. But their course had crossed the path of the red men, who had followed, and having seized the spoil, knew the number of their foes, and when Lovell and his company approached, they rose from the earth with an exulting yell, and showered their death shot fast upon the devoted band.

19. The white men retreated, and protected by the natural defences of the situation to which necessity had driven them, and sheltered by those pines which still bear the scars of the battle, maintained themselves for a whole day with heroic resolution against an overwhelming force. Al though invited to surrender by the display of long ropes, which, in the expressive language of signs, told them of the luxuries of captivity, they fought with a determination to meet a quick and honourable death, rather than to expire amid the torments of a protracted martyrdom.

20. Night at length arrived, and the savages, weary of the contest, and disheartened by the loss of their chief, and of more than three fourths of their warriors, and despairing of overcoming such obstinate resistance, retired, and left their opponents to escape with the miserable remnant who survived.

21. It was no time then for indulging nice feelings of delicacy of all those who had knelt before their Creator at the dawn, sixteen only could bow in adoration at evening, to pour forth their thanksgivings to their Preserver, that amid such perils they had escaped unhurt; ten were gone to their final account, and eight were groaning with the agony of mortal wounds.

22. The conjuncture did not admit of delay-while they yet paused, the bullet might be aimed at their own hearts-they could not wait longer to pay the last tribute of respect to their dead companions, lest they too should sleep in their last repose-they could not delay to sympathise with those whose life was fast ebbing out, for they might share their fate. Silently they retired, and abandoned both.

23. Some of the wounded gathered strength to crawl from the spot where they fell, to perish more miserably from putrefaction and starvation. A situation more miserable cannot be imagined. They had sustained the labours of the day without food, for their stores had been captured with their packs, at the place of their morning repast, and they endured the cold of night without a covering.

24. The moon shone forth brilliantly, and they lay, faint and expiring, suffering the gnawings of hunger, the tormentings of thirst, and the agonies of pain, abandoned by their friends, forsaken by the hope of escape, while the light disclosed the ghastly countenances and mangled forms of the slain, and the wind bore to their ears the shouts of the savages, fierce as the shrieks of fiends.

25. Heavily must that long, long night have passed, for those who waited till death, stealing slowly over their exhausted frames, should sooth their miseries; and gloomily rose the dawn on the eyes, which were yet unglazed and undimmed by the thick film.

26. Incidents occurred during the conflict which marked the temper of the combatants. Such was the single combat of Paugus, the chieftain, with Chamberlain, a soldier, both men of undaunted courage of mind and gigantic proportions of body. Their guns had become too foul for further use, and both went down to the water's brink, to wash them, at the same moment.

27. Standing near each other they exchanged words of mutual defiance and loaded their pieces with correspond

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ing motions. It is said, as Paugus forced down the ball, he called out to his opponent, me kill you quick." May be not," was the laconic reply, and the gun of Chamberlain priming itself, gave him opportunity to falsify the prediction of the savage, whose ball passed over the white man with the erring aim of a dying foe.

28. It is also said, while Chamberlain was taking deadly aim, the Indian called, to acquaint him that he had omitted the motion, whose anticipation was so fatal to the chief; it might have been from a magnanimity, not very consistent with the character of the red hunters; or it might have been the exultation of expected conquest, when he supposed his enemy neglected that so necessary, at a moment when mistake or neglect could not be retrieved..

29. It is also said, that the same instrument that caused the death of the father, in the same hands, proved fatal to the sons, whose filial piety induced them to attempt the fulfilment of what they considered a duty, revenge. It must be confessed that these accounts are traditionary, and perhaps doubtful.

30. Lieutenant Robbins was so disabled as to be unable to accompany the unfortunate survivors. As they departed, he made one last request-not that the tidings of his fate should be told to those who loved him, and that they should know that he did his duty bravely-not the bequest of a helpless family to that country for which he sacrificed life-not that prayers might be offered up for the repose of the soul just on the verge of eternity!

31. But this it was-that they should leave with him a loaded musket, that he might kill one more human being before he slept his last sleep-and the sullen report, which rung through the forest on the morrow, told to his retreating comrades that his horrible wish was probably gratified.

32. Such was the request of one whose sands were hastening away, who in a few short hours was to stand at the tribunal of the judgment seat, in those moments when the approach of the death angel should still the tumult of all earthly passion, and veil all unholy inclinations in the dread solemnity of life's final close.

33. Captain Lovell, mortally wounded by the shot of the single Indian, at the commencement of the battle, received another ball. He fell and expired with eight more of his company killed by the first discharge, and the command

devolved on Lieutenant Wyman, who sustained the conflict during the day, and survived the hardships of the march. 34. The preservation of a soldier named Kies, was little less than miraculous. Covered with wounds, exhausted with fatigue, and faint from the loss of blood, he rolled himself with difficulty into a birch canoe, providentially laying by the spot, not with the hope of escape, but that his remains might be preserved from horrible mutilation.

35. Unable to use the paddle, he lay almost insensible in the frail vessel, was drifted by the waves, and wafted by the winds towards the stoccade, and when returning strength revisited his frame, he arose and reached his home.

36. At the distance of some time, a party went out to the battle field. They found the bodies of twelve of their friends, and, after covering them with sand, carved their names on the bark of a tree, which has now decayed. Beneath a large mound were lain the slain Indians, and the huge form of the sachem Paugus.

37. Such are the particulars of a battle which was of incalculable advantage to the infant settlements. From that period the slumbers of the cradle were no more broken by the war-whoop, and the father, when he laid his head on the pillow, no longer feared that the shouts of murderous savages would rise around the cottage.

Note. Maine is situated between 43° and 48° north latitude; and is bounded east by the fiver St. Croix, which divides it from Nova-Scotia, west by New-Hampshire, and north by Canada. Saco, a large river of Maine, rises in the White Hills, in New-Hampshire, and discharges into Saco Bay. It is navigable for large vessels to the falls, six miles from the ocean.

WHALE FISHERIES.

1. WHALING vessels are of three classes;-two-boat, three-boat, and four-boat ships. The former carry three, the second four, and the latter five boats, one in each case being kept in reserve. As the second class is by far the most numerous, we will select that for our details.