Excerpt from Centennial Oration, Delivered at Portland, July 6, 1886 The history of the first thirty years of Portland shows how close the world is bound together. In all its fluctuations that history was closely responsive to the great events which marked those years in England. The bays and harbors and estuaries of the sea have each their own little waves, but the great lift of the tide comes only from the broad waters of the ocean itself. The battle of Nasby, which made Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the great commonwealth of England, made George Cleeve the Governor of the little Province of Lygonia, and by one of those singular apparent inconsequences of which history is full, the approach of the days of Charles 11. Over threw his short-lived supremacy and broadened the boundaries of Puritan Massachusetts. 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.