Excerpt from Pemaquid and Monhegan: Address of Hon. Charles Levi Woodbury of Boston, Before the Hyde Park Historical Society, February 26, 1891 The French king, in 1603, had granted a charter to De Monts for all the region from latitude 40 to 48 or which we now call New York and New England. 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.